AUSTIN, Texas----Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA' rating to Baton Rouge, Louisiana's sales tax revenue bonds as follows:

GRAMERCY, La.----Imperial Sugar Company , the Sugar Growers & Refiners of Breaux Ridge, La., and Minneapolis-based Cargill today announced the successful closing of a $100 million tax-exempt bond offering to finance the new construction of the largest sugar refinery in the United States, creating about 500 construction jobs and 145 permanent jobs in the New Orleans-Baton Rouge area

AUSTIN, Texas----Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA-' rating to the East Baton Rouge Sewerage Commission, Louisiana's $165 million revenue bonds, series 2009A. The bonds are expected to be sold via negotiated offering during the month of April

Despite his ambition to usher in "a new era of responsibility" with regard to the way Washington spends taxpayer dollars, Obama's first budget picks up the spending baton from the previous Bush administration and runs with it, according to an analysis of the President's tax and spending plans by the Cato Institute

AUSTIN, Texas----Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A+' underlying rating to the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana's $110 million road and street improvement sales tax revenue bonds, series 2009A