Southeast

Property taxation is being targeted in a growing movement across the nation for cuts or elimination to address homeowner angst over rising tax bills.

The city council president hopes the panel will override the mayor's veto of the budget this week.

The bonds are to be used for a variety of projects aimed at recovering from multiple natural disasters that struck Lake Charles in 2020 and 2021.

The changing climate is increasing insurance rates for residents and cities and lowering property values in areas that face more frequent and intense disasters.

While the plan of reorganization says bondholders will get 100% of principal, it won't be for 12 years. And they will lose some interest.

C. Christopher Trower was the lead attorney before the Supreme Court in a case that upheld states' rights to preferential tax treatment of their own bonds.

The Local Government Commission approved bonds for Raleigh, Duke University Health System and Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community.

The revenue bonds will fund highway improvements expected to spur economic development in West Alabama.

The transaction, which supports the Navajo community in Ganado, Arizona, represents a major landmark in furthering Native American health care infrastructure, overcoming hurdles tribal governments typically face in issuing municipal debt to open a replicable path to market other indigenous health systems can follow.