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While the number of deals slipped, the amount of revenues involved in announced transaction hit a peak.
July 14 -
Several states have passed, or are considering, legislation to bar local governments from making payments to criminals who hold computer systems hostage.
May 20 -
If the deal closes, the two systems say they will evaluate existing debt structures and combine credits where possible and beneficial.
May 12 -
The state's Local Government Commission approved more than $1.5 billion in bond and financing agreements, including more than $600 million for the airports.
May 4 -
Ten states, includeing five in the Southeast, pre-pandemic employment levels in January, according to Fitch Ratings. In an update, the U.S. Labor Department reported Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.3% in February.
March 25 -
North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell talks with The Bond Buyer's Chip Barnett about how the state's economy has remained in financially good health despite dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic as well how the state deals with troubled municipalities. As chair of the debt affordability commission, he chats about bond issuance. He also discusses the ways to reform healthcare and increase transparency. (15 minutes)
March 1 -
The new office is the firm’s first in the Southeast region.
January 4 -
The action on East Laurinburg is the first time the Local Government Commission used its new power to dissolve an economically unsustainable municipality.
December 7 -
The Local Government Commission voted to approve the city financing to extend utilities into annexed areas, as well as other deals around the state.
October 5 -
The “tool kit” legislation expands powers of the Local Government Commission, including a last-resort legal process for voluntary or involuntary dissolution.
September 15