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A CDC warning advising pregnant women against traveling to a south Florida neighborhood because of Zika is a negative credit factor for both Miami and Miami-Dade County, said Moody's Investors Service.
August 8 -
Jacksonville, Florida, is asking voters for a half-cent sales tax to help pay down nearly $3 billion in pension liabilities, but a recent lawsuit threatens to derail the referendum.
August 3 -
Miami-Dade County will price $365 million of tax exempt non-AMT refunding bonds and $377 million of taxable bonds on Wednesday.
July 29 -
The small Florida city of Opa-locka is on the verge of bankruptcy, according to the head of a state-appointed oversight board.
July 29 -
Leon County, Fla., home of the state capital in Tallahassee, will offer a new countywide residential and commercial PACE programs after years of planning and legal setbacks.
July 27 -
The Federal Housing Administration said it will begin insuring mortgages on certain properties that include PACE assessments if the obligation is treated like a property tax and it does not have priority status over the FHA mortgage lien.
July 20 -
The Internal Revenue Service has closed audits and left the tax-exempt status unchanged for $311.28 million of community development district bonds in Florida that started the whole debate about political subdivisions and led the tax agency to propose controversial rules for such districts earlier this year.
July 19 -
Miami Beach will begin preliminary negotiations with a group led by France-based Alstom to build a modern light rail streetcar estimated to cost $400 million in its famed South Beach district.
July 14 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission is battling with Miami and former budget director Michael Boudreaux over whether they can defend themselves against securities fraud charges by saying they relied on advice from auditors.
July 11 -
The small south Florida city of Opa-locka, recently designated by the state to be in a financial emergency, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the Miami Herald.
June 23