Trends in the Regions

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.

Brad Briner said the state may need to issue short-term debt in the near future to pay for Hurricane Helene expenses.

Wednesday marks the 10-year anniversary of Detroit's exit from bankruptcy. Its Chapter 9 declaration in 2013 was the largest municipal bankruptcy in the U.S.

A circuit court judge earlier this year struck down the law prohibiting state and local government contracts with firms "boycotting" the fossil fuel industry.

Connecticut is poised to ramp up transportation borrowing, after years of consistently issuing less debt than it had the capacity and authority to sell.

California's IBank has partnered with an insurer and fire resilience fund to pay for fire resilience programs.

Nonprofit Provident Resources Group is buying a five-year old student housing building that serves the University of Central Florida and Valencia College.

Some Midwest states, notably Michigan and Ohio, dipped well below a national average that saw roughly two of every three school bond measures approved in November.

The session, which begins Jan. 14 with a more-conservative Republican majority, could bring additional anti-ESG and DEI legislation.

A bankrupt city's only asset is mired in its history of corruption and a statewide fight over utilities privatization.

A complex refinancing continues Chicago's break from past scoop-and-toss deals but front-loads savings to help balance its budget.

The county achieved its many goals through long-running discipline, planning, and intelligent risk taking.

The use of extendable commercial paper, a first by an airport, provided DFW interim financing for its capital program without the need for bank liquidity.