Paul Burton

New York City Comptroller John Liu has launched (212)NO-WASTE, a hotline for city employees, contractors, and members of the public to report wasteful spending by city agencies.

Standard & Poor’s revised its outlook to stable from negative and affirmed its BBB-plus ratings on the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency’s Series 2008 and 1998 bonds issued for the Boston Medical Center.

The $100 million retirement fund for Lexington, Mass., is making its initial infrastructure investment, which could exceed $6 million.

Three Harrisburg citizens, including a former mayoral candidate, have requested a federal court to impose an emergency temporary injunction to halt the state-appointed receiver in Pennsylvania's capital city from implementing a financial recovery plan.

While Gov. Chris Christie trumpeted a New Jersey comeback in his budget message, his proposed $32.1 billion spending plan for fiscal 2013 hinges on revenue projections that still must materialize.

Amid uncertainty over the cost of building a new Tappan Zee Bridge, New York State officials are floating creative ideas about what to do with the current span after it is replaced.

The Cohasset, Mass., town manager says his objections to a request for proposals for a water service contract triggered his suspension by the board of selectmen, which wants to fire him.

Great-West Retirement Services and TIAA-Cref are the finalists to administer Rhode Island's new defined contribution pension program by a unanimous vote of the State Investment Commission, General Treasurer Gina Raimondo announced.

New York City could realize $100 million in savings from next week's $800 million general obligation refunding bond sale, Comptroller John Liu said Thursday.

It could take two years to close the deal, but Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter favors selling the city's 175-year-old gas company if price and conditions are acceptable.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will earmark about half a billion dollars to renovate the 80-year-old George Washington Bridge, using money from toll and fare increases the bi-state agency recently implemented.

Warning that "Providence is in peril," Mayor Angel Taveras repeated his call for retirees to accept pension cuts and tax-exempt institutions to pay more, to keep the city from running out of money by the end of June.

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania will hold a public hearing on receiver David Unkovic’s financial recovery plan for capital city Harrisburg on March 1.

Gov. Tom Corbett on Monday night signed a bill that lets Pennsylvania counties impose a fee on natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region.

Long-term bond sale volume dropped considerably in 2011 compared with the year before, amid a cautionary environment and the absence of the Build America Bond program.

Stung by a scathing auditor's report that called the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey dysfunctional, its board of commissioners responded by saying it would not be business as usual at the bi-state agency.

The Rhode Island State Investment Commission this week will hear presentations from the four vendors recommended as semifinalists to administer the state’s new defined-contribution program, according to General Treasurer Gina Raimondo.

A Rhode Island Superior Court judge’s preliminary injunction preventing the state’s capital, Providence, from moving retirees who are 65 and older off the city’s health insurance plan and into Medicare is a credit-negative, said Moody’s Investors Service.

The Hudson Yards Infrastructure Corp. learned that the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has erroneously sent notices to state taxpayers who were holders of the corporation’s bonds, saying that all or a portion of the interest paid on the debt is subject to the state’s personal income tax.

The restructuring of three series of variable-rate demand bonds totaling $500 million by New York’s Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority is a credit-positive because it eliminates the risk of failed remarketings related to the credit of failed Dexia Credit Local, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report.