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Though the duration of the mid-Western floods this past summer was shorter than in 1993, the waters reached the same high levels they did in that memorable season. Missouri is [...]

Kansas City, Mo., will competitively sell one of its rare general obligation issues tomorrow, when it borrows nearly $60 million to pay for streetlights that were purchased from the Kansas [...]

Washington University in St. Louis will sell nearly $10 million of general obligation-like revenue bonds today to pay for equipment related to its participation in the National Institute of Health's [...]

CHICAGO - The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District plans to ask voters to change its charter to make it easier for the agency to issue tax-exempt bonds to help meet [...]

CHICAGO - The Missouri Development Finance Board plans to launch a new $100 million pooled loan program for local utility projects as early as this December, executive director Robert Miserez [...]

CHICAGO - St. Louis will offer up a rare general obligation bond deal tomorrow, its first GO sale since 1986. The city - which is an active revenue bond issuer [...]

By Tammy Williamson Like a lot of student-loan issuers, this Missouri agency based in Chesterfield, a St. Louis suburb, tends to deal with the same handful of bankers. That's because [...]

Corporate Plaza, Suite 300 14528 S. Outer Forty Drive Chesterfield, MO 63017-5703 Tel: 314-469-0600 Ext. 3302 Fax: 314-469-0849 Fax: 314-579-9380 Last Deal: 7/21/98 $50.0 million Student Loan Revenue Bonds Current [...]

15450 S. Outer Forty Rd., Ste. 230 Chesterfield, MO 63017 Tel: 314-519-0700 Fax: 314-519-0792 Last Deal: 12/10/98 $25.0 million Health Facilities Revenue Bonds Current FA and terms of contract: Stern [...]

By Andrew Ward In seeking business with this Missouri authority, bankers need to get to know the institutions that are borrowing through the state's largest conduit issuer. The Missouri authority [...]

By Tammy Williamson In fiscally conservative Missouri, the state's constitution dictates that no single elected official has too much financial control. And that includes state Treasurer Bob Holden, 49, who [...]

By Williamson, Tammy Although Kansas City, Mo., officials and backers of the city's biggest revitalization project are finalizing construction plans, they are unsure when the $176 million in bonds needed [...]

The Kansas City Port Authority has traditionally been a quiet, even sleepy, agency - despite its grand-sounding mission of rejuvenating the banks of the Missouri River. In fact, since its [...]

Clarence Harmon wants to make St. Louis a 'city that works.' The new mayor sees his election in April as a mandate to break away from the city's political history, [...]

Kansas City, Mo.'s final official statement for $41 million of airport refund- ing bonds contains a continuing disclosure agreement that differs from the one city officials say they actually signed [...]

Missouri transportation officials want to issue $500 million of bonds for what would be the first debt-financed highway overhaul in the state since the 1920s. The Missouri Highway and Transportation [...]

CHICAGO - With just three days to go before the end of Missouri's legislative session, a constitutional amendment that would make it easier to pass school bond referendums has stalled [...]

St. Louis edged closer to unleashing the largest airport bond issue in history after winning final approval for a $2.6 billion expansion of the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport from the [...]

A Missouri conduit issuer will sell $160 million of auction-rate securities on behalf of St. Louis-based Union Electric Co., a deal that should appeal to investors eager for safe, short-term [...]

A $120 million certificates of participation deal to build a Missouri prison is stalled once again, following a court appeal by opponents that marks the latest bout of seemingly limitless [...]

The Federal Aviation Administration said last week that all safety questions regarding a proposed expansion of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport have been answered, which has St. Louis city officials optimistic [...]

Jitters over health care bond issues in the wake of a hospital system bankruptcy in Pennsylvania shouldn't undercut the sale of Missouri Health and Educational Facilities Authority's highly rated, $225 [...]

After months of delays, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen late Friday approved a lean $65 million public safety bond package that will now be put on the Nov. 3 [...]

Missouri, a rare debt issuer, will hit the market this week with $85 million of natural triple-A rated, general obligation paper. And a Missouri Supreme Court ruling last week that [...]

A $120 million sale of Missouri certificates of participation to build a prison 50 miles south of St. Louis is once again delayed indefinitely due to a lawsuit. It is [...]

The Kansas City Royals are mulling a $70 million facelift for their 25-year-old ballpark, but they won't be asking for bond financing anytime soon. The Royals, seeking to bolster revenue [...]

CHICAGO -- Missouri voters Tuesday passed two amendments to the state constitution, one of which allows school districts to increase their borrowing for school construction. Voters overwhelmingly agreed by 68% [...]

Kansas City, Mo., plans to sell a slew of issues this spring to give its finance staff time to prepare for the city's largest-ever economic development project, a $454 million [...]

Kansas City, Mo., voters on Tuesday approved the first stage in a $454 million, bond-financed entertainment district designed to jazz up its quiet downtown, but the project has been threatened [...]

A planned $120 million certificate of participation deal to finance a Bonne Terre, Mo., prison is on indefinite hold due to a lawsuit filed by a St. Louis contracting team [...]

A group of Missouri lawmakers intend to introduce a bill by year's end that would send any public financing of stadium projects to a referendum before local voters. Rep. Jim [...]

The Missouri Legislature late yesterday was poised to pass a compromise eco- nomic development bill that would overhaul the state's tax-increment financing statutes. Passage would give the go-ahead signal to [...]

City Comptroller Darlene Green yesterday said St. Louis expects approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for its 10-year, $2 billion airport expansion project within six months. Green also told attendees [...]

CHICAGO (3:43 p.m.) - While it has the typical complex features of a mortgage revenue bond deal, the $64 million of single-family mortgage revenue bonds to be sold Thursday by [...]

The Illinois Development Finance Authority last week approved a deal with Allstate Insurance Co. in which the authority would issue bonds for nonprofit social services agencies and the Northbrook-based insurer [...]

Standard & Poor's last week assigned an A-minus rating to St. Louis' $7.2 million of outstanding general obligation debt. The agency had previously rated the city BBB-plus, but the debt [...]

An article that appeared yesterday on a Kansas City, Mo., refunding mistakenly suggested that dealers must comply with continuing disclosure agreements. The article should have stated that if an issuer [...]

Kansas City, Mo., officials are considering the use of riverboat gambling tax revenues to partially back a proposed $110 million general obligation bond issue. The City Council is expected to [...]

Jackson County, Mo., officials are looking into doing a complex lease transaction to cover a projected $29 million maintenance shortfall at Kansas City's two professional sports stadiums. 'We have a [...]

St. Louis finance officials are downplaying the role that riverboat gaming taxes will take in an upcoming revenue bond issue - even though that aspect had been highlighted by the [...]

CHICAGO -- Missouri Gaming Commission chairman Robert L. Wolfson Sr. has directed commissioners to study the statues of the gambling industry in the state and issue a report on it. [...]

Kansas City, Mo., aldermen have put into political limbo a plan to let voters approve $78 million of gaming-backed revenue bonds. Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver originally introduced plans last [...]