Paul Burton

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. on Aug. 9 at Quincy High School on the proposed $38 million sale of Quincy Medical Center Inc. to Steward Health Care System LLC.

Emilie Ninan, a public finance partner at Ballard Spahr LLP and the future president of the North American South Asian Bar Association, has become managing partner of the firm’s Wilmington, Del., office.

Jay Walder on Thursday announced his resignation as chairman and chief executive of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, effective Oct. 21.

New York City should start to build a surplus for fiscal 2012 close to the level just achieved, to deal with a projected $4.6 billion gap in 2013, according to New York State's Financial Control Board.

The Maine Turnpike Authority is suing former chief executive Paul Violette, demanding he repay $524,000 it alleges he cost the agency between 2003 and 2011.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The rejection by Harrisburg’s City Council of a financial recovery plan by a state-sponsored panel has Pennsylvania's capital city scrambling.

The state-appointed receiver overseeing Central Falls, R.I., asked retired police officers and firefighters on Tuesday for $2.5 million in permanent pension and health-benefit concessions for the city to avoid bankruptcy.

Gov. Dannel Malloy and Connecticut's union leaders say they are about to begin negotiating a concessions deal that could ward off thousands of layoffs.

The Massachusetts School Building Authority on Wednesday will sell $142.4 million of qualified school construction bonds through negotiation.

The Central Falls, R.I., City Council will hold its first public meeting in more than a year after Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed a bill requiring more input from local elected officials in communities under state receivership.

As discussion intensifies about drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region spanning four eastern states, a major talking point is suitable compensation for the counties and municipalities where drilling takes place.

Nassau County, N.Y.'s state-appointed financial overseer sent the county back to the drawing board.

Republicans in New York City's Queens and Brooklyn boroughs nominated retired cable television executive Bob Turner to face Democrat David Weprin for the Ninth Congressional District seat vacated by Anthony Weiner.

Moody's Investors Service, citing massive cuts in fiscal 2012 state aid to affected New Jersey cities, placed six municipalities on review for possible downgrade.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has asked a bankruptcy judge to review the proposed $38 million sale of Quincy Medical Center Inc. to Steward Health Care System LLC.

The coffers of a land conservation program are empty because they rely on voter-approved bonds and no such proposals are scheduled on Maine's ballots this year.

A bonding authority that oversees Connecticut's six state-owned airports, including the flagship Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, is up and running.

Moody's Investors Service has revised New Haven's outlook to negative as it prepares to sell $44.5 million of Series 2011B general obligation bonds on Wednesday.

Connecticut plans to eliminate 6,560 positions to fill a $1.6 billion budget gap and bring its two-year, $40.5 billion budget into balance, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee has signed a bill requiring Rhode Island municipalities to guarantee that lenders get first rights to property taxes and general revenue, should the government entity file bankruptcy.