Infrastructure

Investors holding $113 million of bonds issued for the privately owned and operated Branson Airport in Missouri have agreed to a amended forbearance agreement that gives the struggling Ozarks air field more time to pick up operations.

More city finance officers reported improved fiscal conditions in fiscal 2014 than in the 29-year history of the National League of Cities' city fiscal conditions survey. However, the cities are still not fully recovered from the economic recession, the NLC said in its report on the survey.

Moody's Investors Service on Oct. 13 downgraded Long Beach, Calif. Airport Enterprise to A3 from A2 and revised the outlook to stable from negative affecting $117.5 million in outstanding senior airport enterprise revenue bonds.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says there is a growing bipartisan consensus in Congress on long-term federal transportation spending.

Metro-North Railroad completed construction of a $5.7 million bridge in New Hamburg, N.Y.

State debt issuance has been below average and is likely to remain restrained in the near future despite the fact that infrastructure needs are large, Standard and Poor's said in a report released Monday.

Wisconsin voters will vote next month on whether to amend the state constitution to ban the diversion of transportation fund revenues for other expenses.

More than four decades after Southwest Airlines landed at Love Field, the Dallas airport is finally unshackled from the Wright Amendment that minimized its rivalry with Dallas-Fort Worth International.

Half the states are trying to minimize the impact of climate change on public infrastructure but others are far behind, the Georgetown Climate Center said.

The transit agency that provides commuter rail in the Chicago region could soon join the ranks of tax-exempt borrowers under a proposed $2.4 billion, 10-year capital program that relies on about $400 million of financing.