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Municipal Bond Credit Report: Sweeping fiscal changes may come to St. Louis, St. Louis County and its local municipalities if backers of a plan to merge the city and county…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: With default seen as near certain, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded to Caa3 from B1 a pool of California pension obligation bonds of which the largest component…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Tuition revenue pressures from a sharp enrollment drop led Vermont’s Green Mountain College to announce its closure after 183 years. The school in Poultney announced Wednesday…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Beloit College has purchased through a tender most of its publicly offered $23 million 2016 issue in a debt restructuring that follows the private Wisconsin school’s…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Lockport, New York, was raised two notches to A3 by Moody’s Investors Service. The rating revival comes almost five years after severe cash flow problems drove…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: York County, South Carolina competitively prices the first of two general obligation bond issues Thursday, buoyed by a recent GO rating upgrade to Aaa by Moody’s…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: CHICAGO — Palos Health in suburban Chicago and Loyola Medicine have signed a letter of intent that could lead to the independent hospital joining Loyola, which…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Ratings analysts don’t think the pending bankruptcy of California’s investor-owned PG&E Corporation will greatly stress the state and local governments. The corporation, which owns the Pacific…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Maine Gov. Janet Mills authorized voter-approved senior housing bonds that were held up for three years by predecessor Paul LePage. Mills, a Democrat signed a financial…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Hawaii’s state auditors released two reports highly critical of Honolulu’s 20-mile rail transit project just ahead of plans to price $250 million in general obligation bonds…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Completion of a replacement Tappan Zee Bridge while keeping debt levels in check triggered an upgrade to New York State Thruway Authority bonds. Moody’s Investors Service…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles teachers are on strike, but the bond ratings of the nation’s second-biggest school district aren’t likely to change. Three rating agencies…