Paul Burton

Moody’s Investors Service has placed the Baa1 rating on Lackawanna County’s $232 million of outstanding general obligation bonds under review for possible downgrade.

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority sold $92.2 million of tax-exempt refunding Series 2001 sewer revenue bonds on Wednesday.

Harrisburg’s City Council will vote on its latest financial receiver proposal at an Aug. 31 special legislative session.

The Empire State Development Corp.’s board of directors approved funding totaling $11.1 million last week, leveraging more than $354 million in investment across New York State.

Moody’s Investors Service has assigned a stable rating to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, two weeks before the nation’s largest technological research university plans to remarket its Series 2002E bonds as fixed rate, and sell $40 million of taxable debt through a private placement.

Upper Township employees had an alternative after voters rejected a proposed $9.5 million bond referendum to repair primary and middle schools: They made the fixes themselves.

Gov. Dannel Malloy has announced the members of a new task force that will review the effectiveness of Connecticut’s education cost-sharing grants and how it relates to state constitutional requirements.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s board of commissioners cited the need to maintain a high bond rating Friday morning in approving a set of toll and fare hikes for the region after the states’ governors softened the blow.

Eight of every 10 financial managers polled in a survey of state government chief financial officers and their peers say recent and future budget cuts will produce new kinds of risks.

New York's surplus has evaporated, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in a report for July that his office issued on Wednesday.

With a bankruptcy in Central Falls and pension-debt problems engulfing her state, Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo has announced a bond sale for next week, accompanied with a marketing campaign.

Fitch Ratings late Wednesday afternoon downgraded New Jersey's general obligation bond rating to AA-minus from double A.

The Monroe County, N.Y., Industrial Development Corp. is scheduled to issue $161 million of fixed-rate, tax-exempt revenue bonds on Thursday following a one-day retail order period, to benefit 19 projects at the University of Rochester.

The New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corp. has scheduled a sale of $522.6 million of taxable student loan-backed notes for this week.

Issuers in the Northeast sold $36.1 billion of municipal bonds in the first six months of 2011, down 38.8% from the same period a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters.

The dominoes continue to fall in Rhode Island as Moody’s Investors Service downgraded East Providence to Baa1 from A1, while on the same day it lowered to A2 from Aa3 the Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp.’s revenue bond financing program.

Puerto Rico received 12 responses from infrastructure funds, U.S. private-equity firms, Canadian pensions, and developers based in Spain and India to a request for qualifications for a privatization of up to 50 years of its principal airport, near the capital, San Juan.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority sold $201.6 million of tax-exempt capital grant receipts bonds, Series 2011.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York on Wednesday approved $426 million of health care bonds for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Obligated Group. The 30-year bonds will be sold through negotiated sales.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo named a search committee to recommend candidates for the next chairman and chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.