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Arizona reactivated a bond program to help rural communities and tribal governments finance infrastructure projects.  The Greater Arizona Development Authority (GADA), which had been dormant for nearly 10 years, began offering financial assistance this month, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced this week.   “By reinvigorating this tool, we are providing an opportunity to leverage existing funds to

When Wisconsin priced $253.755 million of general obligation refunding bonds for forward delivery on July 23, it was the state’s second forward delivery deal in recent months.  On Feb. 27, Wisconsin had priced $89.02 million of GO refunding bonds, 2025 Series 1, for forward delivery. The state taxable and federally tax-exempt bonds, to be delivered

As the market lurches from the effects of possible rate cuts to a less than stellar employment report, some industry leaders are dubious about negative forecasts for the near future. “Many economists on the street are now penciling in a 50-basis point fund rate cut in September and November, with 25 point cuts thereafter,” said

Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her vice president in the 2024 race catapults the former geography teacher, veteran and former Congressman to the national stage and with it, his long track record as a champion for local issues. Walz follows Walter Mondale, vice president to Jimmy Carter, and Hubert Humphrey

The wagons are circling around anti-environmental, social, and governance laws enacted in Texas and Oklahoma amid a flurry of studies on their financial impact and congressional scrutiny. The two states were early enactors of laws that led to the blacklisting of more than 20 financial firms, including municipal bond underwriters, for “boycotting” or “discriminating” against

The California Supreme Court has extended to Sept. 6 its decision to deny or grant review in a case challenging San Jose’s pension obligation bond validation. The high court has at least 60 days to make a decision after a request for review is filed, and that deadline was drawing near in the San Jose