Trends in the Regions

Wish lists for new or improved professional sports venues are piling up with Oklahoma City poised to vet financing proposals for a downtown basketball arena.

The billion-dollar deal will be the first bonds backed by the tax since it was created in 2019.

Wiles retired from Los Angeles County at year-end but will still influence the industry as a member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.

Florida sold $131.9 million of bonds Wednesday with double-barreled backing from the state's fuel tax and its full faith and credit pledge.

Multiple carbon capture projects are advancing across the Midwest, but the Trump administration may change the calculus around CCS and net zero goals.

Large bond sales are expected this year for airports undergoing major expansion projects in Denver, Dallas, Houston, and Austin amid rising passenger traffic.

Brad Lander, the city comptroller, tallied the potential Trump administration threats to the city's federal funding, from infrastructure to hospitals.

BRIDGE Housing Corp. is the first to publicly offer tax-exempt bonds to finance construction of a new development, a 224-unit project in Portland, Oregon.

Enviva's bankruptcy is the latest Chapter 11 bankruptcy where green private activity bonds are restructured to near zero.

Prolific debt issuance by Texas school districts, state issuers, and others drove muni volume to a state record in 2024, easily surpassing 2023's $59 billion.

The $33 billion funding gap in the authority's five-year capital plan is too big, the Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker said in a rejection letter.

Kotek has spent the past month working on a very busy agenda involving housing, fires, transportation and construction labor agreements.

A new law and constitutional amendment will restrict how fast property tax bills can rise on homestead properties, impacting local governments.

Several metropolitan districts, which finance public infrastructure for housing developments, tapped contingent liquidity for debt service payments this month.

The budgeting constraints transformed the state's finances and bond ratings. But critics say the policy's downsides include the stifling of needed investments. 

The Trump administration may cut the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, which threatens to land on a hospital sector still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The challenge to the 2022 approval of bonds for a PACE program could "catastrophically undermine" the finality of all Florida bond validations, the agency said.

Ohio legislators plan to vote Wednesday on a resolution that would put a $2.5 billion general obligation bond measure on statewide ballots May 6.

Governments once stayed for decades in the state program for distressed municipalites; one official called it a "roach motel." Today, only three towns remain.

Border cities like San Diego have obvious concerns about the impact of a trade war, but the ripples would extend into the South and Midwest, analysts say.