Paul Burton

MMCT Venture, a partnership between the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes in Connecticut, released an RFP for a Hartford-area casino.

A continued shift towards digital media goods such as downloaded music could affect $41 million of New York City tax revenue, said the watchdog Independent Budget Office.

Connecticut lawmaker Scott Frantz said the state nearing its “soft cap” bond limit for the year should concern rating agencies.

Infrastructure needs, pension funding and health-care benefits are most constraining to municipal budgets in 2015, the National League of Cities said in its annual survey on fiscal conditions.

Sniping between Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature resumed after Wolf predictably vetoed an $11.2 billion stopgap budget.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said a settlement by Scranton’s nonuniform pension board will save the city more than $600,000.

Rhode Island’s House of Representatives intends to resume hearings on the 38 Studio bond financing fiasco following the release of tens of thousands of pages of documents.

Rhode Island Superior Court has released tens of thousands of documents related to the state’s 38 Studios lawsuit.

New York's MTA will review its $152 million contract with its paratransit Access-a-Ride service provider after employees told board members of mistreatment.

With non-transportation P3s on the rise, analysts and other experts say they're not for everyone.

New York’s MTA expects to resubmit its five-year capital program request to state officials by the end of next month, Chairman Thomas Prendergast said.

Interim Rhode Island Treasury chief of staff Jeff Padwa will take the permanent position, state Treasurer Seth Magaziner announced.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s operating budget is unsustainable, said a report by its new fiscal oversight board.

Pennsylvania Auditor Eugene DePasquale’s pending report will weigh the effect of the state budget impasse on schools districts and social service agencies.

Pennsylvania’s budget dispute is nearing its third month, with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and Republican lawmakers still at odds.

Some documents related to the 38 Studios lawsuit may remained sealed, a Rhode Island judge ruled.

Based on GASB 25 data, 2014 was the best year for state pensions since the recession, Loop Capital Markets said in its public pension funding review.

New Rhode Island Treasurer Seth Magaziner touted a $175 million debt restructuring and a green-themed Infrastructure Bank as progress for the state.

Connecticut is accepting applications for a new grant program designed to help communities plan for remediating and redeveloping clusters of brownfield sites.

Connecticut received a $700,000 federal grant to study of transit-oriented development in the Hartford line corridor, which covers New Haven, Hartford and Springfield, Mass.