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The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority plans to come to market Wednesday with $829.4 million of airport system revenue and refunding bonds. “Traditionally, we’re in the market at about the same time every year. We either have a refunding opportunity or a new money need,” said Andrew Rountree, the authority’s senior vice president for finance and CFO.

Municipals sold off Wednesday following another weaker U.S. Treasury session while equities were down near the close. Muni yields rose two to 13 basis points, depending on the curve, coming on the tailwind of a market correction, said Brad Libby, a fixed-income portfolio manager and credit analyst at Hartford Funds. Mixed economic data has been

The owner of a municipal-bond financed nitrogen fertilizer plant in Lee County, Iowa, is trying to sell the plant to one of its largest competitors, Koch Industries. The Iowa Fertilizer Company plant was built from 2012 to 2017 near the unincorporated community of Wever. Helping to kick off construction were $1.194 billion of tax-exempt private

Dallas would ramp up contributions to its Police and Fire Pension System over five years and could pursue additional funding options, including pension obligation bonds and using a portion of sales taxes earmarked for mass transit, under recommendations presented to a city council committee.  Jack Ireland, Dallas’ chief financial officer, told the Ad Hoc Committee

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis declared “the long wait is over” as he cheered the Biden administration’s action this month to reclassify marijuana in the eyes of the federal government.  The move, which is now in a public comment period, would change marijuana from a Schedule I drug on par with heroin and LSD to Schedule

Municipals took a breather Friday ahead of the long weekend and a much smaller calendar after seeing yields rise and underperform U.S. Treasuries, pushing ratios to levels last seen in November 2023. In addition to “more attractive raw yields, municipal underperformance has allowed relative values to improve as well,” noted Kim Olsan, senior vice president

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology violated its bond covenant at the beginning of the month when it missed a monthly $1.2 million interest payment to the bond trustee. Jessica Warren, Harrisburg University’s executive director of marketing and communications, said the university only needs to make interest payments twice a year on its outstanding bond

The flooding in Vermont last summer illustrates climate change’s impact on U.S. localities and their financial responses. Severe floods that were triggered by several days of heavy rainfall in Vermont left homes washed out and businesses and municipal facilities with severe physical damage. It also left some of the rural communities in the state, which