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Lake Oswego OR School District – $160 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond Issue
Featured Municipal Bond Issue, Week of 08/14/2017: Lake Oswego (OR) School District No. 7J - General Obligation Bonds – $160 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Oregon. The Lake Oswego School District #7J is issuing general obligation...
Fiscal Impacts of Immigration on State and Local Governments: Boon or Burden?
Study Finds Immigration Short-Term Net Cost; Long-Term Impacts by Jeffrey L Garceau Immigration is always in the news, and immigration policy is never settled. While there are many controversial facets of immigration policy in the United States, one way policy makers...
State of Maryland General Obligation Bonds – $1.3 Billion | MuniNet Featured Bond Issue
Featured Municipal Bond Issue, Week of 08/07/2017: State of Maryland General Obligation Bonds (Refunding) – $1.3 Billion This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Maryland. The 'Old Line State' is issuing general obligation and general obligation...
State GDP Growth in the 1st Quarter of 2017: South Rises, Plains Feels Pain
Southeast and Southwest Both Experience Strong GDP Growth, Most States Improve Over Q1 2016. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has released their Gross Domestic Product numbers for each state and region for the first quarter of 2017. Positive GDP growth occurred in...
Overcoming Economic Downturns and Fiscal Distress Part II: Alternatives Available to the State of Illinois and its Municipalities
'Overcoming Economic Downturns and Fiscal Distress' Continues with Part II: Alternatives Available to the State of Illinois and its Municipalities to Monitor and Provide Oversight and Assistance to Financially Troubled Municipalities In the previous part of...
Bay Area Toll Authority Revenue Bonds – $1.1 Billion | MuniNet Featured Bond Issue
Featured Municipal Bond Issue, Week of 07/31/2017: Bay Area Toll Authority Revenue Bonds (Intermediate Lien) – $1.1 Billion This week’s featured bond comes from the State of California. The Bay Area Toll Authority is issuing senior and subordinate toll bridge...
Overcoming Economic Downturns and Fiscal Distress Part I: The Gathering Storm
In Part I of 'Overcoming Economic Downturns and Fiscal Distress', James Spiotto Looks at the Gathering Storm in Illinois and Its Municipalities since 2000 In the Introduction to this series, James Spiotto stressed the need for deliberate, disciplined...
How State and Local Governments Can Overcome Economic Downturns and Fiscal Distress
MuniNet Guide Co-Publisher James Spiotto Looks at How We Got Here, Where We Can Go, and How States Are Working to Trim Expenditures While Working on Policy Goals by James Spiotto Over the past sixteen years we have had two recessions (2001 and 2007), the...
Port of Seattle Revenue Bonds – $705 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond Issue
Featured Municipal Bond Issue in the Market, Week of 07/24/2017: Port of Seattle Revenue Bonds (Intermediate Lien) - $705 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Washington. The Port of Seattle is issuing intermediate lien revenue and...
Virginia College Building Authority Revenue Bonds – $599 Million |MuniNet Featured Bond Issue
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 07/17/2017: Virginia College Building Authority Educational Facilities Revenue Bonds – $599 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia College Building Authority is...
State of Hawaii Airport Revenue Bonds – $251 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 07/10/2017: State of Hawaii Airport Revenue Bonds - $251 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Hawaii. Hawaii is issuing airport system customer facility charge revenue bonds in the amount of...
Re-Assessing the Credit Quality of America’s Cities in 2017 – Part One: Examining Financial Health Against a Backdrop of High Ratings
Are Credit Ratings Reflecting True Risk? More than two years ago, MuniNet published a five-part series on Assessing the Credit Quality of America's Cities, intended to examine and create a framework to analyze the financial health of cities. With this first...
Survey Says – Number One Issue for State and Local Governments: Hiring and Retaining Staff
Hiring Trend Continues, as Do Struggles With Turnover The Center for State and Local Government Excellence, an organization dedicated to research on state and local government employee compensation, health care, retirement, and other benefits, carried out their...
City of Houston Anticipation Notes – $200 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 07/03/2017: City of Houston Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes – $200 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Texas. The City of Houston is issuing tax and revenue anticipation notes in the amount...
Statement from Illinois Comptroller Regarding State Budget Crisis
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza Lays Out Stark Truth in Direct Public Address Editorial, MuniNet Guide Staff The Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza set a good example, acting in a spirit of statesmanship, as a responsible elected state official on...
Personal Income Growth in 49 States in 1st Quarter
BEA Numbers Show State Personal Income Growth Higher than Previous Quarter The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its state personal income numbers for the first quarter of 2017. State personal income growth accelerated to 1.0 percent on average in the first quarter...
City of Richmond General Obligation Bonds – $227 Million | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 06/26/2017: City of Richmond General Obligation (Refunding) Bonds – $227 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the Commonwealth of Virginia. The City of Richmond is issuing general obligation bonds in the...
Brookings Institution’s 6th Annual Municipal Finance Conference | MuniNet Featured Conference
Conference Hosted by Brookings Institution, Others, Puts Spotlight on Municipal Finance in D.C. The Brookings Institution is going to be putting municipal finance front and center for two days, on Monday, July 17 and Tuesday, July 18 in Washington, D.C. The 6th annual...
Georgia General Obligation Bonds – $1.4 Billion | MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 06/19/2017: State of Mississippi General Obligation Refunding Bonds – $1.4 Billion This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Georgia. The State of Georgia is issuing general obligation bonds in the amount...
Public Pensions: Contributions Up, Investment Earnings Down in 2016
Annual Census of State and Local Public Pensions Shows Discouraging Investment Returns, Declining Assets The U.S. Census Bureau has released its 2016 Annual Survey of Public Pensions, which provides a comprehensive look at the financial activity of the nation's state...
State of Mississippi General Obligation Refunding Bonds – $450 Million
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 06/12/2017: State of Mississippi General Obligation Refunding Bonds – $450 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Mississippi. The State of Mississippi is issuing general obligation...
Virginia College Building Authority – $251 Million Revenue Bonds | MuniNet Featured Bond Issue
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 06/05/2017: Virginia College Building Authority Revenue Bonds – $251 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia College Building Authority is issuing Educational...
McCarran Airport Revenue Bonds (Clark County) – $148 Million – MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 05/30/2017: Clark County, Nevada - McCarran Airport Revenue Bonds – $148 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Nevada. Clark County, Nevada is issuing airport system junior subordinate...
MuniNet Data Shows Clear Leaders and Laggards in Metro Labor Force Trends among Largest U.S. Metropolitan Areas
MuniNet Data Shows Growth in Metro Labor Force Trends among Largest U.S. Metropolitan Areas. by Jeffrey L Garceau When discussing the health of the economy, the media typically pays attention to three metrics: unemployment rate, net jobs numbers, and gross domestic...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Revenue Bonds – $177 Million – MuniNet Featured Bond
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 05/22/2017: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Revenue Bonds – $177 Million This week’s featured bond comes from the State of Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development is issuing...