Paul Burton

Hurricane Sandy raised awareness about the need to better fortify the New York City region. What is not clear is the best way to do that, or to pay for it.

The University of Connecticut will go to market with a $90 million sale of Series 2012A refunding special obligation student fee revenue bonds.

Standard & Poor's raised its rating on Central Falls, R.I.'s general obligation debt to BB from C. The outlook is stable.

Moody's Investors Service revised its outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the Ba1 rating of Queens Ballpark Co. LLC, developer of the New York Mets' Citi Field.

Massachusetts Treasurer Steven Grossman wrote U.S. Senators Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., to oppose legislation that would limit states' control of online gambling within their borders.

Harrisburg's former receiver wants a special prosecutor to probe the incinerator bond deals that left Pennsylvania's capital more than $340 million in the hole.

Retail pricing began for the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency's $230 million sale of mortgage revenue bonds. The institutional sale will be Thursday.

Moody's downgraded to Ca from Caa1 the bond rating of West Penn Allegheny Health System, which is embroiled in a messy merger battle with Highmark.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other New York City leaders announced a $500 million emergency plan to make critical repairs to public schools and hospitals damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

City officials, workout consultants and industry leaders asked a Pennsylvania agency to let the city of Pittsburgh exit its recovery plan and the distressed label that goes with it.

A judge on Friday granted Highmark's motion for a preliminary injunction against West Penn Allegheny Health System, blocking the speculative-rated health system from seeking other suitors for an affiliation.

Hurricane Sandy gave New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority a harsh wake-up call about the need to fix infrastructure in the face of climate change.

City Council member James Diossa and former police Chief James Moran advanced in a five-way special nonpartisan mayoral primary in recently bankrupt Central Falls, R.I.

A federal judge will sentence David Dodd on felony counts related to the failed Capitol View Commerce Center project in Harrisburg, Pa.

The MTA's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority should be able to absorb revenue losses from Hurricane Sandy closures, said Moody's, though liquidity could be further squeezed.

New York's MTA, restoring its subway and commuter rail systems after Hurricane Sandy's damage, will continue its flurry of bond activity this week.

Massachusetts ended its fiscal year with a $116 million surplus and boosted its rainy-day fund by 20%, to $1.7 billion. Its balance is the third-highest.

Pittsburgh officials say they have come so far from their basket-case days of nine years ago that they want a state agency to remove the "distressed" tag.

The Scranton, Pa., City Council introduced proposals to increase in the real estate transfer, business privilege and mercantile taxes for 2013.

Harrisburg's state-appointed receiver insists that selling the parking garages in Pennsylvania's capital city is still a better option than keeping them and using their revenue to pay down incinerator-related debt.