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The Southwest recipient is the City of Austin’s $464.5 million offering of taxable revenue bonds to fund its acquisition of a biomass-fired power plant for the city’s electric utility.

The inaugural winner in the ESG/Green category is the L.A. County MTA's $545 million offering of sales tax revenue bonds, which included $418.5 million second-party-verified green bonds.

Municipal bond buyers will see over $17 billion of new issues come to market this week, a high for the year. Transportation issues dominate the calendar.

The market won't see a lot in the way of supply in this holiday-shortened week, but what there is coming to market will be of the higher-grade variety.

The supply surge trend continues as the municipal bond market will see almost $12 billion of new deals hit the screens this week.

On Nov. 7th, 2019, we had a great discussion on how the municipal regulatory landscape has changed over the past 10 years and what to expect in the future.

Taxables remain in focus this week with deals out of Texas and Wisconsin. California comes with $682M of exempts competitively.

Taxables in full force once again; yield seekers have Illinois.