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Looking for a springboard after years of belt-tightening and a recent change in leadership, the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority is seeking to move beyond its traditional role as the state's [...]

DALLAS -- Under pressure to keep violent criminals behind bars and to relieve jail overcrowding, Texas voters will decide tomorrow whether to authorize the sale of $1 billion of general [...]

CHICAGO -- Sexual harassment complaints have cost Chicago-based Rodman & Renstlaw Inc. a place on the underwriting team for an upcoming bond issue by illinois. The state yesterday pulled Rodman [...]

New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio's ban on negotiated underwriting could virtually wipe out any business done in the state by firms owned by minorities and women, according to officials at [...]

ATLANTA -- For the second time in less than two months, a large North Carolina municipal power agency plans to come to market with a bond issue more than $1 [...]

BUENOS AIRES -- The government's most recent Letes treasury bond auction saw limited demand. As a result, the government had to pay 9.1% interest rates on 91-day notes, above its [...]

MTS, an electronic trading platform for Italian government bonds that has sprouted a bevy of sister companies in Europe, is extending its reach into the secondary institutional trading arena through [...]

For the past several years, educational reform has held center stage in Massachusetts -- either in the legislature, Governor's Office, Department of Education, or the Massachusetts Teachers Association. Hardly mentioned [...]

Just as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice completes the largest prison-building program in U.S. history, officials have announced that state-run lockups are again full, and more than 14,000 additional [...]

ILLINOIS More TIF Bonds The Chicago City Council last week authorized the sale of up to $250 million of tax increment financing bonds for the city's downtown Central Loop TIF [...]

An agreement reached between House leaders and the White House on a plan to revitalize poor neighborhoods has suddenly boosted the chances that Congress will pass legislation this year to [...]

HAWAII Food Processing Debt While the Legislature galvanized around social-service and technology-development funding, the state's agricultural staples were not entirely left out of the funding picture. In addition to $100 [...]

DALLAS - The Texas Turnpike Authority moved closer to its plan to begin issuing bonds for new toll road projects Tuesday when it hired Salomon Smith Barney Inc. as senior [...]

CHICAGO - The Ohio House this week adopted Gov. Bob Taft's $1.8 billion appropriations bill that includes a plan to use bond financing to raise $920 million for state schools. [...]

Issuer: Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Issue: $70 million of single-family revenue bonds Structure: Term bonds in 2014, 2017, and 2028 Sale date: Retail order period Monday and Tuesday, institutional pricing [...]

If the volatility in the stock market continues at a steady pace, the municipal market could see the early stages of a flight to quality, despite a 32% year-to-date drop [...]

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Audit Deadline Passes The district chief financial officer's self-imposed March 31 deadline for the city's fiscal 1999 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report came and went, and after numerous [...]

Issue: Indiana Bond Bank revenue bonds Size: $145 million Date: retail order period today; institutional pricing tomorrow Structure: 2003 to 2022 Ratings: NR/AAA/AAA Selling points: Availability, natural triple-A Underwriter: Bear, [...]

The Virginia Housing Development Authority, hoping its solid market reputation will again favor its departure from the housing sector's traditional modus operandi, plans to competitively sell roughly $270 million of [...]

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is the lead manager on an upcoming $85 million revenue bond sale through the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority for the Hackensack University Medical [...]

The Massachusetts Health and Education Facilities Authority will be treading on new ground within the next few weeks when it sells $40 million of debt to create a revolving loan [...]

There's no longer any question -- Bob Smartt hit a nerve with his drive to convince Colorado issuers to sell their bonds competitively. What remains unclear is if the resulting [...]

OAK BROOK, Ill. -- Investors in hospital bonds want more financial information more frequently in the wake of the Allegheny Health, Education, and Research Foundation's disastrous bankruptcy, according to a [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - Washington Gov. Gary Locke says he has found a way to provide an additional $525 million for transportation projects in his state, including tapping three revenue sources [...]

After several months of delay, Vermont's largest ever hospital deal will sell, buoyed by Fletcher Allen Health Care Inc.'s positive year-end numbers that indicate a fiscal recovery. The deal includes [...]

DALLAS - Kansas lawmakers stayed their bond issuance course Tuesday when a $595 million highway debt program survived -- even though the state's fiscal 2000 budget was cut across the [...]

Issue: New Jersey Transit Corp. certificates of participation Size: $234. 1 million Date: Jan 10 Structure: 2002 to 2015 Ratings: A1 by Moody's, A by Standard & Poor's and Fitch [...]

ILLINOIS Loop Renovations Chicago officials may soon set their development sights on the East Loop area of downtown, prompted by recommendations from a new report by city planners. The plan, [...]

New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall announced that the state, its agencies, and New York City and its agencies will issue approximately $3.24 billion of debt in the first [...]

DALLAS - Metropolitan areas in Texas are considering how to confront a growing need for road and rail projects even as the threat of stiffer air pollution regulations may limit [...]

CHICAGO - While Illinois has no plans to discontinue its tradition of selling general obligation bonds competitively, state finance officials are leaning toward bringing a January issue and several subsequent [...]

SAN ANTONIO - A little more than a year after states began to sell state revolving fund bonds backed by both their clean-water and drinking-water programs, the verdict is in [...]

Standard & Poor's yesterday assigned its highest rating to $32 million in notes that represent the first short-term issue to be backed solely by future federal, state, and local transportation [...]

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis Monday signed a bill allowing California not only to sell its general obligation bonds competitively through electronic bidding, but also to invest in higher [...]

Issue: California general obligation bonds Size: $400 million Date: Tomorrow Structure: Serials from 2000 to 2029 Ratings: Aa3/AA-/AA- Selling Points: Size, availability, name recognition, scarcity Underwriter: Competitive sale Issue: Florida [...]

ATLANTA - North Carolina's competitive sale of $200 million of GOs today is expected to draw a favorable response from the market. The package will feature about $177 million of [...]

*Tentative amount; raf=rating applied for; NR=Not Rated ---- ISSUER ST DESCRIPTION AMOUNT ($000s) TIME OF SALE FINANCIAL ADVISER LEGAL OPINION MATURING INSURER MDY'S S&P FITCH BANK-QUAL. LATEST DETAILS Tuesday, September [...]

An unseasonably strong demand for municipals is expected to continue lifting the market this week, even while traders anticipate a damper on activity from the Labor Day hiatus. 'The market's [...]

WASHINGTON - The Virginia Resources Authority agreed yesterday to let Crestar Bank provide bridge loans to local governments so they can launch sewer, solid waste, and other projects months before [...]

Senior Managers Volume Firm ($ mils.) 1 Prudential Securities $170.2 2 Dain Rauscher 155.7 3 Peacock Hislop 144.5 4 Goldman Sachs 144.3 5 Wachovia Securities 124.7 Issuers 1 Phoenix $231.7 [...]

ALASKA Budget Bandwagon A growing number of business organizations and prominent Alaskans are choosing to endorse the long-term balanced budget plan that will go before voters Sept. 14, according to [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - Rising interest rates resulted in the first half of 1999 seeing fewer refundings, which was the main force behind a 21% decline in issuance as compared to [...]

LOS ANGELES - Hawaii officials have reversed the Hurricane Relief Fund's decision to award its underwriting business to Merrill Lynch & Co., choosing Salomon Smith Barney Inc. instead. The state [...]

PA=Paying Agent; RE=Registrar; TR=Trustee ISSUE AMOUNT DATED DATE DUE DATE CALL DATE CALLER STATUS ALABAMA Alabama Industrial Development Authority, state industrial development authority revenue 130,000 Mar 1, 95 Sep 01 [...]

CHICAGO - Indiana state officials are hoping that a buyer will be found for a struggling steel mill, thus saving the state from having to fulfill a moral obligation pledge [...]

PUBLIC POWER Bliley, Barton To Introduce Bill Two House Republicans who are key decision makers on energy issues are preparing to introduce a bill that would grandfather municipal utilities' existing [...]

ATLANTA - A plan to borrow up to $3 billion for the University of North Carolina system is on the verge of collapse as the state's 1999 legislative session winds [...]

ARKANSAS Baptist Downgrades Standard & Poor's last week lowered its rating to A from A-plus on $7.4 million of outstanding revenue refunding bonds issued through the Clark County Hospital and [...]