Infrastructure

The Vermont Municipal Bond Bank and Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency named public finance veteran Michael Gaughan to lead both entities.

Mayor Martin Walsh cited the need for more elaborate resilience measures after freezing floodwaters engulfed neighborhoods.

A first round of Parkways Authority bonds — $120 million to $125 million of the $500 million of total bonds authorized — will be ready to go to market in late April or early May, Parkways General Manager Greg Barr said Thursday.

While dodging the actual phrase, Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested now is the time to seriously consider a tolling plan to fund subway and street repair in New York City.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood an 116 groups call for a bipartisan, multi-level governmental approach to infrastructure that includes municipal bonds.

The sectors creating the most jobs have relatively low wages and the city’s poverty rate remains high, said the Citizens Budget Commission.

State lawmakers reconvene on Jan. 17.

The signal that Trump is re-thinking Federal assistance to the DOT Gateway Tunnel project in New York and New Jersey may have grave implications for local leaders planning federally-assisted infrastructure efforts.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority executives Paul Brandley and Mike Abramo shine a spotlight on the many changes in place at the agency that runs Boston's transit system. Paul Burton is host.

If Chattanooga Lookouts team owners decide to seek public tax support for a new baseball stadium in the city's South Broad Street district, they could find their path narrowed considerably under proposed legislation introduced in the Tennessee General Assembly by two local lawmakers.