Paul Burton

The 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.

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.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority will go to market armed with a creative tool: the floating-rate note.

Connecticut will end fiscal 2012 with a general fund deficit of $20.7 million, according to Comptroller Kevin Lembo.

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.

Financially distressed Harrisburg, Pa., plans an eight-day auction of Wild West artifacts in mid-July, Mayor Linda Thompson announced.

The Nassau Off-Track Betting Corp. has agreed to pay harness horse-racing tracks to settle a long-running, multimillion-dollar lawsuit.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

The attorney representing Harrisburg, Pa.'s City Council in its bankruptcy filing has filed another appeal of the rejection of its Chapter 9 case.

The State Investment Commission unanimously voted to select TIAA-Cref of New York as the vendor to administer Rhode Island's new defined contribution program, General Treasurer Gina Raimondo announced Monday.

Detractors say the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is too big and secretive, overcharges commuters, carries way too much debt, and shouldn't run point for the World Trade Center redevelopment.

Providence retirees could face a 73% haircut on their pension benefits if Rhode Island’s capital city files for Chapter 9 protection, a bankruptcy expert says.

The Harrisburg Authority public-works agency has authorized chairman Marc Kurowski and interim executive director Shannon Williams to explore selling authority-owned historical artifacts through the same auction house that is selling similar items the city of Harrisburg, Pa., owns, the Patriot-News reported.

Long Beach, N.Y.’s declaration of fiscal crisis, giving its new city manager broader powers, is a credit positive, said Moody’s Investors Service.