Trends in the Regions

Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority released a plan calling for $1.5 billion in operating funding from state and local sources and more RTA control.

While Texas is forecasting a big budget balance, fiscal boom times are ebbing for it and other Southwest states amid tax cuts and depleted federal funding.

With losses expected to be measured in the tens or hundreds of billions, the municipal finance industry begins to take stock of the Los Angeles-area wildfires.

The bonds — $824.8 million tax-exempt and $400 million taxable — follow Orlando Health's major acquisitions of hospitals in Alabama and Florida.

Ohio is facing steeper than projected declines in cigarette smoking, and thus in tobacco settlement revenues, and disputes from tobacco giants over payments.

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.