Paul Burton

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's budget will include $91 million in additional Chapter 70 education funding to municipalities and $40 million extra in unrestricted local aid.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo proposed a $9.3 billion budget that calls for two years of free tuition at public colleges for in-state students.

The New York City Council approved a bill that requires the watchdog Independent Budget Office to review city-issued economic development tax breaks.

Capital Hartford is veering out of control toward bankruptcy and needs help from a state already wobbly, said a Manhattan Institute report on Connecticut’s poorest cities.

The MTA’s tentative deal with New York transit employees provides some certainty while ignoring spiraling health-care and pension costs untouched, say muni bond observers.

Green bonds are a tool more issuers use to finance various means of purifying drinking water and buffering against rising seas.

Pennsylvania has transferred and consolidated three investment funds worth a combined $2.3 billion to reduce its fee payout to Wall Street managers.

So-called intervention bankruptcy – combining federal and state resources – could help governments manage municipal insolvency, said a Manhattan Institute report.

The New York City Industrial Development Agency approved $195 million in tax breaks for Related Cos. and Oxford Properties for their planned Hudson Yards office tower.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's fiscal oversight board approved a five-year, $28 million warehouse privatization contract with Management Consulting Inc.

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is looking for qualified groups to form a community land trust.

The University of Connecticut intends to sell $335 million in GO bonds to fund capital projects that include relocating its Greater Hartford campus.

Connecticut must enact pension system overhaul that balances fiscal responsibility and retirees’ needs, Gov. Dannel Malloy said in his State of the State speech.

Tom Prendergast departs as New York MTA chief on a high note as Second Avenue subway line opened. His successor will face numerous challenges.

The University of Pittsburgh intends to sell roughly $525 million of Series 2017A taxable university refunding bonds.

A New York subway line delayed over 100 years is about to open "on time" when Second Ave. Subway service begins on New Year's Day.

Folding its $1.6 billion retirement fund into the state pension system is essential to the future of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said a Pioneer Institute report.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ceremony to tour a new Second Avenue subway line drew an overflow crowd to the station's mezzanine. So much for alleviating congestion.

Multiple early initiatives will crowd Donald Trump's administration, Citi VP and former White House advisor Candi Wolff told Massachusetts investors.

Hartford, Conn.'s four-year contract firefighters will save the teetering city millions, said Mayor Luke Bronin.