Thomas Nocera joined The Bond Buyer in 2022 to cover the Northeast region. He began his career in local journalism, covering crime, politics, business, and the culture of New York City's most populous borough, Brooklyn. During the pandemic, Thomas covered the national healthcare industry for the Guardian News and later worked with the GroundTruth Foundation to report on protest movements in New York in addition to the state of a federally managed refugee resettlement program struggling in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Thomas received a masters degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and is a former fellow of the Overseas Press Club Foundation.
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S&P Global Ratings, who revised the state's GO bond outlook from negative to stable last week.
August 29 -
Local residents filed a bond validation challenge to a $15 billion PILOT offering designed to let electric truck maker Rivian avoid paying property taxes.
August 24 -
The rating agency highlighted the state government's recent payments to its underfunded state pension system.
August 19 -
The New Jersey mall and entertainment venue continues to struggle with its debt service requirements.
August 19 -
Borrower Jasper Pellets and trustee US Bank have been locked in a legal battle after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 27.
August 17 -
Gorab, president and managing director of New Jersey's Wilentz, Goldman and Spitzer, died in June at age 61.
August 16 -
Massachusetts had temporarily delayed the $2.7 billion sale as state lawmakers debated additional funding for the state's unemployment trust fund.
August 11 -
The latest revenue numbers come ahead of a governor's race that rematches incumbent Brian Kemp against Democrat Stacey Abrams, whom he narrowly beat in 2018.
August 10 -
Political infighting ahead of November's local elections have left the finances of the state's capital in disarray and show no signs of abatement.
August 5 -
The deal is the latest in a series of credit offerings the city is using to incentivize and grow the local charter school industry for the future.
July 29