The Urban Institute and the National League of Cities, with funding from The MacArthur Foundation, are bringing together thought leaders in Washington D.C. on September 8 to discuss city fiscal management in their conference, City Economic and Fiscal Resilience: How...
Month: August 2016
State of California to Issue $2.7 Billion in General Obligations
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 08/29/2016: State of California General Obligation Bonds. This week’s featured bond comes from the State of California. The Golden State is scheduled to issue $2.7 billion in general obligation bonds the week of August...
Fort Collins Colorado Earns Top Pick Status
Fort Collins' Website Gets Residents Where They Want To Go Quickly and Easily MuniNet brings back Top Pick features when it sees a website that is truly noteworthy. The city of Fort Collins deserves recognition for their exemplary city government website. Fort Collins...
This May Be One “Discount” That’s not So Appealing
More on 2015 City Pension Funds: This is Part II in Richard Ciccarone's look at city pension funds in 2015 and the future landscape. Part I can be found here. Earlier this month, MuniNet reported that most city pension plan funding ratios took a positive bounce based...
How Should We React When State and Local Governments Get More of Our Money?: Dissecting the Upside of Higher State and Local Government Tax Revenues
First Quarter of 2016 Sees Tax Revenues Rise 3.1% Since Same Time Last Year The amount of tax revenues being brought in by state and local governments is important, as it may indicate the direction of the economy through increased economic activity, it may reflect...
Birmingham Water Works Board to Issue $456 Million Revenue Bonds
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 08/22/2016: Birmingham Water Works Board This week’s featured bond comes from the City of Birmingham Water Works Board. The capital of the Cotton State is scheduled to issue $456 million in revenue refunding bonds the...
Infrastructure Digest: Investments and Policy in Our Cities and States
MuniNet Guide's August Infrastructure Digest provides some of the more notable news stories relating to state & local infrastructure investments, involving transportation, environmental sustainability, energy, and economic development. Developer seeks...
University of Southern California to Issue $730 Million in Taxable Bonds
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 08/15/2016: University of Southern California This week’s featured bond comes from the University of Southern California. The home of the Trojans is scheduled to issue $730 million in federally taxable bonds the week of...
U.S. Metro Areas Reflect Improving Employment Environment
Three Out of Four Metros Having Better Employment Performance In June 2016 Than June 2015 The Bureau of Labor Statistics released their June numbers for Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) unemployment and employment metrics. Of the 387 official metro areas in the...
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Scheduled to Issue $1.2 Billion GO
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 08/08/2016: Pennsylvania This week’s featured bond comes from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Keystone State is scheduled to issue $1.2 billion in competitive general obligation bonds the week of August 08, 2016....