Gov. Ricketts signed into law a $450 million plan to fuel completion of Nebraska's expressway system. The measure establishes a infrastructure bank that supporters say will help fulfill a promise from 1988.

A crossover refunding differs from a traditional advance refunding in that proceeds of the refunding issue are used to pay interest on the refunding bonds, rather than the refunded bonds, until the call date of the refunded bonds.

Two officials intent on building a new baseball park in their town northwest of New York City were charged in what the U.S. called the first ever municipal bond-related criminal securities fraud over the financing.

Charles Laven and Julijs Liepins provide readers with an introduction to both impact investing and municipal bonds, and explain how impact investments can strengthen the municipal bond market.

Gov. Scott signed House Bill 7027 into law, creating the nonprofit Florida Department of Transportation Financing Corp. The corporation, to be overseen by the Division of Bond Finance, will be the state's first conduit issuer for Florida DOT bonds.

Upgrades and repairs to San Francisco's northern seawall to make it more resilient to earthquakes and rising sea levels could cost more than $5 billion, the Port of San Francisco said in a report it delivered to the city on April 11.

A combination of pricing pressure due to seasonal weakness, new regulations on money market funds, and the scarcity of short-term paper is creating a unique buying opportunity in one of the municipal market's most actively-used benchmarks for swap transactions.

U.S. ports and their private-sector partners plan to spend a whopping $154.8 billion on port-related freight and passenger infrastructure over the next five years, according to a survey by the American Association of Port Authorities.

Recently released proposed Treasury regulations seek to change the requirements for municipal bond issuers to qualify as issuers of tax-exempt bonds. Many lawyer and industry groups, as well as many States and local government agencies, will be commenting unfavorably on this proposal by the IRS

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Public Sector Consultants Inc. conducted a report for MITA to study Michigan's Water Infrastructure Investment Needs. The results of the study provide important information that is worth evaluating as the state works to resolve the rising underground infrastructure issues across Michigan.

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