Paul Burton

East Providence Mayor Bob DaSilva and Planning Director Bill Fazioli tout the Rhode Island city's initiatives, including brownfield site conversions. Paul Burton hosts. (18 minutes)

The quasi-independent authority, founded in 2004, funds capital improvement projects in public schools throughout the commonwealth.

Mayor Bill de Blasio expanded furloughs to all managerial and non-represented employees while City Hall also faces an alarming coronavirus spike in some neighborhoods.

Pledging the payroll mobility tax would get the authority a lower Municipal Liquidity Facility interest rate, board member Lawrence Schwartz said.

Lisa Daglian, executive director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, and MTA board member Andrew Albert say supporting mass transit is the best way to rejuvenate the economy in New York and nationally. Paul Burton hosts. (27 minutes)

Feeling the revenue hit from the coronavirus, the commission has received state approval for a second delay in $112.5 million quarterly transit payments.

Family emotions, union pushback, fears of a new COVID-19 wave, cost drivers and data fluctuations are all at play as the city flip-flops on in-person education.

The move by New York's mayor could precede more citywide action in the absence of federal rescue aid or state-authorized long-term borrowing.

With Congress gridlocked over the coronavirus rescure package, the nation's largest trasit authority may have to look for other options.

Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and the commonwealth's Pension Reserves Investment Management board look to improve measurement of environmental, social and governance data.

Gov. Gina Raimondo and top lawmakers want a clearer picture from Washington over coronavirus relief aid.

The rating agency lowered the authority's transportation revenue bonds to A3 from A2, citing again the effects of the coronavirus.

S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Pennsylvania's A-plus rating to negative from stable ahead of Wednesday's competitive general obligation bond sale.

Any bonding to cover coronavirus-related budget gaps should come only with oversight from a reactivated state panel, the Citizens Budget Commission said.

Siddharth Singhai, chief investment officer at IronHold Capital, explores how pension funds can choose better money managers. Paul Burton hosts. (16 min.)

State officials would break up the Kennedy Plaza depot in Providence and create smaller hubs around the city, using bond money voters approved six years ago.

The governor cited budget and social justice benefits from a measure to legalize cannabis, which officials say could bring in $600 million of new revenues.

The short-term Municipal Liquidity Facility does not meet the city's needs, the mayor said while repeating his call for borrowing authority from New York State.

The university and its health system are experiencing the biggest shortfalls ever, president Thomas Katsouleas told Connecticut lawmakers.

The governor said the group will craft recommendations to build economic resiliency and curb costs to prepare for a post-coronavirus future.