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With the mayor's race riveted on public safety, candidates discussed the city’s finances in a televised debate.

Natalie Brown replaces Dominick Mondi, who retired earlier this year.

Kestrel Verifiers has certified as green a tranche of bonds that will finance the ethanol plant in California's economically challenged Imperial Valley.

Colorado lawmakers are working on a $5 billion funding proposal for transportation; this week's $500 million debt issue targets immediate needs.

Three upgrades in two days and four in six weeks mark the state's first bond-rating upgrades in 20 years.

Fitch Ratings, S&P Global Ratings and Kroll Bond Rating Agency all upgraded the Constitution State ahead of a $1 billion taxable and tax-exempt transaction set for Wednesday.

Proposed remedies were as varied as the candidates themselves as eight leading Democratic candidates jousted in a live televised debate.

While the race has drawn few headlines compared with the battle for mayor, a dozen hopefuls are running for the office.

The states intend to come to market with $600 million and $1 billion, respectively, bringing state GO credits in an improving credit environment that has held yields down.

Stronger-than-expected state revenues and other borrowing options meant the California School Finance Authority's note program didn't use its full authorization.

The bistate agency’s exports link increasingly to information-based services, an NYU Rudin Center study says.

The forward-delivery bond, part of its $1 billion special tax obligation issuance, was a first for the state, Treasurer Shawn Wooden said.

New York City's mayor cited roughly $15 billion in additional state and federal aid, improving COVID-19 statistics and the further lessening of restrictions in releasing his executive plan.

They will benefit projects in transportation infrastructure, housing, educational building improvements and parks.

Forward delivery sales, a replacement for tax-exempt advance refundings, could grow in 2021.

New Jersey lines up $400M sale with outlook boost

The commonwealth's largest public pension fund acknowledged an erroneous investment return that was just high enough to avoid triggering a teacher risk-sharing provision.

Lawmakers added more money and projects to Idaho's Garvee program in 2017 partly to counter congestion from the state's massive population growth.

Moody's elevated the state's GOs to Aa3 from A1, citing a commitment to boosting rainy-day balances and sound governance during the pandemic.

Officials cited borrowing flexibility before a joint meeting of the transit authority's oversight board and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.