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Big-ticket transit plans are riding on the outcome of ballots cast in densely populated Wake County, N.C., and Atlanta in November, where voters are being asked to increase sales taxes to fund those plans.
October 19 - Kentucky
Southeast issuers sold $37.63 billion of municipal bonds in the first half of 2016, a decline of 10.9% from the same period last year, even as new money deals increased.
August 24 - Georgia
Kutak Rock LLP has hired veteran bond attorney Thomas P. Lauth to join the firms public finance practice in Atlanta.
August 22 - Georgia
Georgia's chief financial officer Teresa MacCartney has received the Gloria Timmer Award from the National Association of Budget Officers during the organizations annual meeting.
August 16 -
City of Atlanta and Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority leaders will use the months ahead to persuade voters to support two half-cent sales tax increases for major transportation improvements.
July 6 -
The Internal Revenue Service may soon revoke the tax-exempt status of a Georgia housing corporation that for three consecutive years failed to file information returns on a $7.81 million bond issuance in 2013.
June 20 -
Georgias Oconee Regional Medical Center did not make its June 1 bond payment, and although the hospital said it plans to pay the debt, S&P Global Ratings sent its ratings to the bottom of the junk scale.
June 17 - Georgia
Triple-A rated Georgia will auction $1.4 billion of general obligation bonds Tuesday, with analysts seeing the state benefiting from six years of positive revenue performance.
June 6 -
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said he would not discuss why he dismissed Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport general manager Miguel Southwell and Watershed Management commissioner Jo Ann Macrina.
May 23 -
Atlanta signed a 20-year lease with Delta Wednesday that keeps the carrier based in the city and paves the way for a $6 billion capital expansion plan at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
April 28