Trends in the Regions

When Ohio's Community Memorial Hospital shuttered on Aug. 31, it became the latest small-town Midwest hospital to hit insurmountable financial troubles.

Stagnant per-pupil state funding amid rising costs led to budget deficits, lower reserves, and ballot proposals to raise property tax rates for some districts.

Massachusetts drew multiple bidders for all four tranches when it sold $850 million of general obligation bonds competitively last week.

The good, the bad and the ugly for two of California's major cities when they sell debt in current market conditions.

Subsidence has delayed completion of the new Belle Chasse Bridge, a project led by one of the developers of the $2.3 billion Calcasieu Bridge project.

Illinois will sell up to $1.1 billion of general obligation refunding bonds and $600 million of taxable and tax-exempt GO bonds by the end of September.

The Dallas-Fort Worth region toll highway owner and operator aims to rake in savings from the deal as it expects to cash fund a $2 billion capital plan.

A bill would allow the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue debt for California's FAIR Plan, its property insurer of last resort.

The bonds will fund infrastructure in one of 21 community development districts that have built the age-restricted 55-and-up Villages to more than 76,000 homes.

Chicago will bring to market $1 billion of bonds for O'Hare International Airport, part one of a three-phase financing plan for 2024.