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The Wisconsin-based conduit got a BBB rating from Kroll Bond Rating Agency for $165 million of Series 2017 taxable revenue bonds payable solely from New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine promissory notes and guaranteed by Montefiore Medical Center.
April 18 -
As legislators in Madison debate how to fill a $1 billion hole in the state's transportation fund, cash-strapped local government officials are left with no choice but to use band-aids to patch the potholes riddling the state's crumbling roads and bridges.
April 10 -
Midwestern voters loosened their purse strings to approve Kansas City, Missouri’s $800 million infrastructure referendum but held fast against St. Louis’ public financing request for a new soccer stadium.
April 5 - Wisconsin
Kansas City, Missouris $800 million request is the biggest bond measure on April 4 ballots in Midwestern states, where voters will decide the fate of more than $2 billion of municipal borrowing requests.
March 28 - Wisconsin
Wisconsin voters are looking more favorably on school district borrowing requests, signing off on a record $1.35 billion of debt last year, according to a new study.
March 15 - Michigan
Issuers in the Midwest sold $87.2 billion of municipal bonds in 2016, a 23.4% year-over-year increase that was the biggest of any region.
February 14 - Wisconsin
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker laid out a two-year, $76 billion budget that offers a mix of tax cuts, more school funding, and the lowest bonding authorization in years.
February 9 -
The bonds of 16 affordable housing properties affiliated with Global Ministries Fellowship were downgraded by S&P Global Ratings, sending 14 more of the credits to junk.
January 31 -
The Internal Revenue Service has initiated an audit of $26.5 million of zero coupon bonds issued by an authority in Wisconsin last August to monetize a grant Dallas gave to a company redeveloping buildings that housed the old Statler Hotel and Dallas Public Library.
January 30 -
Republicans in Wisconsin legislature ask planners for more realistic estimates of highway project costs.
January 30