Caitlin Devitt has covered the municipal bond market since 2008. She began her journalism career at the Herald Newspapers on the South Side of Chicago, starting as a reporter and rising to Managing Editor. While at The Bond Buyer, she covered the Detroit bankruptcy among other Midwest-based stories. Devitt joined Debtwire Municipals in 2016, where she covered the high-yield municipal bond market for five years, before returning to the Bond Buyer as Senior Infrastructure Reporter. She lives in Chicago with her family.
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Recent federal legislation marks the largest investment in carbon management in the history of the U.S., which is already a global leader in the space.
February 7 -
The $10,000 state and local tax deduction cap is an important issue for high tax states like New York and California and investors who trade paper from those states.
February 2 -
The political uncertainty could eat into the number of "clean weeks" for issuance, said Citi's Vikram Rai.
February 2 -
Alex Chilton is the firm's new head of municipal securities. Zach Solomon and David Gallin are co-heads of public finance.
February 1 -
The $292 million federal grant comes from the Mega grant program for large, complex infrastructure projects, which had a "wildly competitive" first year, said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
January 31 -
The lawsuit comes as higher education energy concessions have become one of the most active spaces in the P3 market.
January 30 -
Kelly has twice introduced legislation to broaden private activity bonds.
January 27 -
A group of top local government associations have formed a new legal coalition aimed at Supreme Court cases that carry municipal implications.
January 26 -
Open data standards will help Flint "tell its story" and benchmark itself against other cities, said CFO Robert Widigan.
January 25 -
Roger Millar, AASHTO's new president and chief of Washington's Department of Transportation, joins Caitlin Devitt to talk about the rollout of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, how a tight labor market and inflation are impacting capital plans, what a divided Congress means for transportation and an update on the Pacific Northwest's high speed rail project. (24 minutes)
January 24