Paul Burton is the Northeast Regional Editor for The Bond Buyer. His major coverage has included New York City and MTA finances; the Harrisburg, Pa., debt crisis; the 38 Studios bond financing fiasco in Rhode Island; and unfunded pension liability. Paul hosts podcasts and videos and has moderated at Bond Buyer conferences. Previously, Paul was senior editor and copy chief at M&A-oriented financial media company The Deal LLC. His award-winning career has spanned financial, sports and political journalism. A Boston native, Paul is the author of the book “Tales from the Newsrooms.” He is a frequent public speaker and has appeared as an expert on municipal debt on radio and television shows, including former CBS News White House correspondent Sharyl Attkisson’s public-affairs program, “Full Measure.”
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The board of the recently created Connecticut Airport Authority has hired Bridgeport law firm Pullman & Comley LLC as general counsel for one year.
March 9 -
The Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority on Tuesday plans to competitively sell $47.8 million of Connecticut State University System revenue refunding bonds, Series L.
March 9 -
Harrisburg, Pa., will skip $5.3 million in general obligation bond payments due March 15, its state-appointed receiver said Friday.
March 9 -
Following a report that said it pays a lot more to New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority that it gets in service, Rockland County, N.Y., officials have begun to explore a withdrawal from the MTA.
March 7 -
Executive Steve Bellone on Tuesday declared a fiscal emergency for Suffolk County, N.Y., after a task force issued a staggering report that warned of a $530 million deficit over three years.
March 6 -
New YorkThe New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority intends to sell $502.2 million of fiscal 2012 Series EE second resolution, fixed-rate, tax-exempt bonds on Tuesday.
March 5 - New York
The New York Mets' owners must pay as much as $83.3 million to a trustee in advance of a trial to determine the team's level of involvement in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme.
March 5 -
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority will go to market armed with a creative tool: the floating-rate note.
March 2 - Connecticut
Connecticut will end fiscal 2012 with a general fund deficit of $20.7 million, according to Comptroller Kevin Lembo.
March 2 - Rhode Island
Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo scheduled regional meetings designed to educate public employees about how the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act of 2011 will affect their retirement eligibility and pension benefits, as well as extended hours for retirement counselors.
March 2 - Pennsylvania
Financially distressed Harrisburg, Pa., plans an eight-day auction of Wild West artifacts in mid-July, Mayor Linda Thompson announced.
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The Nassau Off-Track Betting Corp. has agreed to pay harness horse-racing tracks to settle a long-running, multimillion-dollar lawsuit.
March 2 - New York
Todd Miles joined law firm Harris Beach as a partner in the public finance and economic development practice group along with the municipalities and quasi-governmental agencies team.
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Moody’s Investors Service affirmed Simmons College’s Baa1 rating, and revised its rating outlook for the Massachusetts institution to positive from stable. The move affects about $182 million in debt.
March 2 -
When the Pennsylvania Economic Development Authority issued $107 million of debt in January to bail out defaulted bonds in connection with the 10-story Forum Place office building in Harrisburg, critics called it another incinerator-type fiasco in Pennsylvania's capital city.
March 1 -
Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo said allegations that she fired an employee — who is also a Providence city councilman — because of a column he wrote about pension overhaul are “absolutely untrue.”
March 1 -
The chairman and chief executive of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the timing is ideal for two bond sales in March, including a $400 million offering next week.
February 29 -
The executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said an audit report that upbraided the bistate agency is an effective wakeup call.
February 28 - New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is leaning on lawmakers to pass a pension overhaul package that he says would save the state $113 billion over 30 years.
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The attorney representing Harrisburg, Pa.'s City Council in its bankruptcy filing has filed another appeal of the rejection of its Chapter 9 case.
February 27
