Paul Burton

The former fiscal advisor to the Rhode Island Senate will oversee an office whose creation Gov. Lincoln Chafee sought in his budget proposal.

Proceeds will refund bonds and finance capital projects at the health system's three campuses near Philadelphia.

The rating agency, one day after lowering the state's GO bond rating to Aa2 from Aa1, took further action affecting the Keystone State.

After a long, bumpy road, Gov. Tom Corbett signs a bill that establishes a framework for infrastructure public-private partnerships.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee's executive order to form a task force on shared services among Central Falls, Pawtucket and East Providence is a credit positive for those stressed Rhode Island cities, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Executives from video-game company 38 Studios LLC admitted in bankruptcy court that their breakthrough game fell short of expectations.

Central Falls could exit bankruptcy by early September under a schedule to which unions, retirees and a bankruptcy judge agreed.

New York City Comptroller John Liu urged Mayor Michael Bloomberg to quickly identify senior administration officials responsible for orchestrating and overseeing the illegal lobbying activities at the city's Economic Development Corporation.

The state expands its pool of underwriters interested in negotiated sales by 35%, according to Treasurer Steven Grossman.

But the teetering city, frozen out of the capital markets and under national glare for paying employees the minimum wage in defiance of a court order, must agree to a revised recovery plan.

The broke city has yet another problem. It can't sell its sewer conveyance system to a local authority, as projected, because the authority has owned it since 1968.

William Lynch wants a state court to force the City Council to raise the earned-income levy to 1.5% from 0.5%.

The Council of Development Finance Agencies recognizes the Massachusetts conduit issuer for crafting a tax-exempt bond for the school's Gateway Park research complex.

The Massachusetts Port Authority, which needs to shuffle gates at Boston's airport to accommodate the United-Continental merger and JetBlue expansion, plans to sell $285 million in new money and refunding.

State building aid payable to the city secures the bonds under the School Financing Act.

Linda Thompson proposes ending a five-year old incinerator fee agreement with the Harrisburg Authority public works agency that she said would redirect $275,000 per year to Pennsylvania's distressed capital city.

A Lackawanna County, Pa., judge late Friday enjoined Scranton from paying its employees only the federal minimum wage, but the mayor of the cash-strapped city said there's no money left with which to comply.

Northeast public officials are glancing westward for any precedent that could emerge from that northern California city's bankruptcy filing.

The law firm taps a former key operative for the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, perennially a top issuer.

Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook for West Warwick, R.I.'s general obligation bonds to negative from stable, while affirming its rating of $13 million of debt at BBB-plus.