Paul Burton

PFM Advisors, a division of PFM Asset Management, has named Biagio Manieri director of research.

Another player in the Harrisburg debt crisis intends to seek office.

Capital city Harrisburg’s incinerator debt crisis is on the radar of federal investigators, the Patriot-News reported.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s board has approved $534 million in financings for higher education and health care institutions.

The New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority priced $400 million of second-resolution, fixed-rate tax-exempt bonds through negotiated sale Tuesday.

A ruling by a New Jersey tax court that the Red Bull Arena soccer stadium in Harrison is a taxable property is a credit positive for that community, Moody’s Investors Service said.

Rhode Island has received 12 proposals from vendors seeking to run the state's new defined-contribution program, which pension overhaul legislation passed last fall created.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority may get needed relief from New York State for high borrowing fees connected with refunding bond sales, its executive director said Wednesday.

Pennsylvania lawmakers and Gov. Tom Corbett are debating what to do with Chester Upland's teetering school district, in a case that has drawn statewide and even national attention.

The New York Racing Association has failed to implement significant financial reforms after its 2008 exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to an audit by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released Tuesday.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York on Wednesday is scheduled to refund $122 million of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center fixed-rate, tax-exempt revenue bonds, 2003 Series 1.

The New York City metropolitan region stands to lose billion of dollars through delays in infrastructure projects, the new executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Monday.

Gov. Dannel Malloy on Monday announced a change to Connecticut's pension funding plan that he said will avoid a spike in the state's obligation in fiscal 2032 and avert a potential crisis.

The New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority plans to sell $400 million of second-resolution, fixed-rate, tax-exempt new-money bonds Tuesday, after a one-day retail period.

A forensic audit focusing on the incinerator bond deals largely responsible for driving Harrisburg into insolvency has prompted another request for federal investigations into the transactions.

Connecticut officials reacted angrily Friday after Moody's Investors Service lowered the state's general obligation bond rating to Aa3 from Aa2.

Vermont is triple-A rated, and state auditor Tom Salmon wants to keep it that way — even if a tropical storm named Irene created havoc.

A federal bankruptcy judge’s approval of collective bargaining contracts between bankrupt Central Falls and retired employees is a credit positive for the city, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo’s office will host a workshop Tuesday for municipalities with locally administered pension plans in advance of the reporting deadline set by the recently passed Rhode Island Retirement Security Act.

William Rhodes became chairman of the public finance department at Ballard Spahr LLP, the Philadelphia law firm announced.