Paul Burton

City Comptroller John Liu and the New York City Pension Funds called on for-profit universities DeVry and Career Education to reveal students' debt levels.

The Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency appointed five persons to senior management positions, executive director Thomas Gleason announced.

Gov. Dannel Malloy, pursuant to a state statute, approved $95 million in bond funding for Connecticut State University System 2020 projects during fiscal 2014.

An improvement in revenue is shrinking the projected deficit and improving the outlook for the end of fiscal 2013, according to Connecticut Comptroller Kevin Lembo.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority will sell $200 million of Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority refunding bonds for capital projects.

The Lehigh County Authority, offering $220 million, is high bidder for a 50-year lease to run the Allentown, Pa., water system, topping several private firms.

As baseball season opened, the operator of parking garages at New York's Yankee Stadium fell into default, missing a $6.9 million bond interest payment.

A budget commission will begin moving East Providence back to local control, said Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee and Revenue Director Rosemary Booth Gallogly.

Allentown, Pa., has extended the deadline to respond to its request for bids to privatize its water and sewer utility system under a 50-year lease to noon Friday.

Harrisburg, Pa., issued a request for proposals to privatize trash pickup, but Mayor Linda Thompson's derogatory remark turned the announcement into another theater of the absurd.

Altoona has received a $519,000 grant to support new technologies that will help the financially distressed city implement its financial recovery plan.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Krancer will leave to rejoin the Philadelphia office of Blank Rome LLP.

Women-owned Stern Brothers & Co. opened an office in New York City, is 15th location, and hired investment banker Donna LoCascio.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority awarded the first contract to a company participating in its new federal small business mentoring program.

Uncertainty from labor contracts to bond interest rates could pressure New York City's finances and skewer projections, according to the Independent Budget Office.

Gov. Deval Patrick's administration, acting on a provision of the 2009 Massachusetts transportation overhaul law, has named a panel to explore P3 deals.

Standard & Poor's cited a "windfall settlement" with Google Inc. in raising North Providence, R.I.'s general obligation bond rating two notches to BBB-plus

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Secretary-Treasurer J. William Lincoln resigned from the panel in the aftermath of a grand jury report over pay to play.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill that would replace hundreds of state-owned liquor stores and privatize the industry.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority sold $1 billion in new money and refunding bonds, including $650 million new money, $250 million refunding and $100 million in taxable qualified school construction bonds.