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With the House Natural Resources Committee planning to release a new Puerto Rico bill on Wednesday and vote on it a week later, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew traveled to the commonwealth to hold meetings to drum up support for a legislative solution.
May 9 -
Colorado Senate has approved a $3.5 billion road note package that could go to voters in November.
May 6 -
Municipal industry experts on Thursday urged analysts to continue focusing on how the presence of statutory liens can change the treatment of debt in bankruptcy proceedings and ratings analyses.
May 6 -
The par amount and number of municipal securities trades rose in the first quarter of this year, compared to both the previous and same quarters last year, according to Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board statistics posted Thursday. But the number of continuing disclosure documents received dropped to 46,623 in the first quarter of this year from 47,934 during the same period last year.
May 5 -
A regulatory official and market participants sparred over the merits of the Securities and Exchange Commission's voluntary continuing disclosure enforcement initiative during a panel here on Wednesday while acknowledging the need to improve municipal disclosure.
May 5 -
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said concern for the people of Puerto Rico is the primary reason he wants lawmakers to adopt restructuring legislation for the commonwealth.
May 4 -
Dustin McDonald, the current director of the Government Finance Officers Associations federal liaison center, is leaving GFOA on Friday to lead the marijuana technology company Weedmaps government relations practice.
April 28 -
In a near unanimous vote, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday passed a bill that includes $1.4 billion in federal funding for Flint, Mich. as well as any other community facing a water crisis.
April 28 -
After having been withdrawn from the energy bill in the Senate, controversial legislation to provide federal funds to Flint, Mich., and any other community facing a water crisis, has been included in a major water bill introduced in the chamber this week.
April 27 - Washington
Standard & Poors Ratings Services this week revised its outlook to negative from stable on both the District of Columbias bonds outstanding issued for National Public Radio (NPR) and on its issuer credit rating for the media organization.
April 22