With the sale of state and local government securities already suspended, Congress appears headed to yet another showdown over the debt limit. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Monday released a fiscal 2022 budget resolution that does not include an increase to the United States’ borrowing
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The nation’s largest underwriters of municipal bonds will soon begin operating under a Texas law that bans them from state contracts if their policies are said to discriminate against the firearms industry. Senate Bill 19, one of several pro-gun pieces of legislation signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, takes effect Sept. 1. The law
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Municipal market participants question the wisdom of executing Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy without local legislative approval for new bonds and instead relying on court-approved debt, as the Oversight Board is exploring. New bonds are key to Puerto Rico’s exit from bankruptcy, as are cuts to Puerto Rico’s three main pension systems: the Employees Retirement System, Judicial
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Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., has hired Kyle Hemminger as it looks expand its healthcare practice. Hemminger joined the healthcare public finance group in the Columbus, Ohio, office this month as a director to cover healthcare and senior living organizations nationally. He joins a healthcare team that now totals 23 professionals
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Videos of floodwater in upper Manhattan went viral last month as storms flooded New York’s streets with four inches of rain. While subway commuters waded through waist-high water at 157th Street, water cascaded down the Dyckman Street subway station, home to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s A line. “These videos are a reminder of more dramatic
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