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The GOP-controlled state legislature adjourned without passing a bill barring government contracts with firms, including banks that underwrite municipal bonds, if they “discriminate” against the firearm industry.

SWS has launched a specialty higher education sector group that will be led by Julia Harris from the firm's Chicago office.

FHN Financial Capital Markets hired Rene Moreno to establish a banking presence in Arizona while Melanie Shaker will launch the firm's new Midwest effort.

The airport was heavily exposed to the now-defunct JetBlue airline, but Southwest has filled the gap.

States face a multi-trillion infrastructure gap, which they need to address with a sense of urgency, a speaker at the Milken Institute Global Conference said.

A taxable bond issue will raise $3.4 billion for extraordinary costs incurred by natural gas utilities during deadly Winter Storm Uri that hit Texas in 2021.

The underwriters filed a defense to the court earlier this month and analysts are skeptical of MBIA’s chances of prevailing.

Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read called off a lottery bond sale planned in 2020 after lottery revenues cratered because of pandemic-related business closures.

Montebello Unified priced a $12.2 million tax-exempt refunding, but didn't execute a planned taxable tranche.

Firms remain uncertain about how state laws that apply litmus tests for banks and others seeking contracts with governmental entities impact them.

Underwriters sidelined by the state's new litmus test on firearms policies have bought many past Texas TRANs, but the state won't need to issue any this year.

The city is pricing $168 million of subordinate wastewater revenue bonds on Tuesday. The system's main plant spilled raw sewage into Santa Monica Bay last year.

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport will bring its first new money issue since 2017 to the municipal bond market next week, buoyed by an rating upgrade.

The California Health Facilities Finance Authority will price the final authorization of $1.05 billion from the $2 billion program on Tuesday.

Moving beyond its goals for the ownership makeup of a deal team, Wisconsin pushed for diversity among the lead contacts working on a recent transaction.

Idaho will bring its inaugural issuance tapping a new transportation funding stream supported by sales taxes.

Lawmakers in other red states are trying to follow Texas' footsteps with bills to subject banks to a litmus test over their treatment of the firearm industry.

The firm's special district group is up to 30 public finance professionals with the addition of seven members since January.

The 18-member group will be headed by Eric Scroggins, co-head of debt advisory and restructuring, and Bill Reisner, head of public finance investment banking.

Education and utilities were the municipal sectors that shrank the most.