Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on Thursday terminated some contracts related to its 4.5-mile expansion of its Green Line light rail system north of Boston.

The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board and two of its executives earned top honors for innovation from Asset International-CIO.

A Suffolk County Superior Court dismissed Boston’s lawsuit aimed at stopping Wynn Resorts’ planned $1.7 billion casino in nearby Everett.

Meghan Burke, co-winner of the Fred Johnson award from Northeast Women in Public Finance, oversees public finance at Boston’s Mintz Levin.

Standard & Poor’s revised its credit outlook on Massachusetts to negative from stable Nov. 23 citing a projected decline in financial reserves.

The Massachusetts School Building Authority intends to sell $1 billion of senior sales tax refunding bonds over the next two weeks.

Massachusetts has completed a $500 million sale of Commonwealth Transportation Fund revenue bonds to help fund six new rail projects in the Bay State.

Moody's upgraded MIT spinoff Broad Institute to Aa3 with a stable outlook from A1 and positive, citing sustained growth and healthy operating cash flow.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker outlined an initiative for developing unused or underused state properties into affordable or market-rate housing opportunities.

Investors looked past an S&P downgrade and a critical control board report as the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority sold $357 million of sales tax bonds.

The granting of tribal reservation status to land in Taunton, Mass., where a $500 million tribal casino is planned, is a credit negative to southeastern Massachusetts where commercial casino plans could be derailed, said Moody’s.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s operating budget is unsustainable, said a report by its new fiscal oversight board.

A $1 billion funding gap could jeopardize completion of the Green Line streetcar extension north of Boston, Massachusetts transportation officials say.

The new fiscal control board that oversees Greater Boston’s mass transit system is tightening its oversight of commuter rail subcontractor Keolis.

Issuers in the Northeast sold $54.2 billion of municipal bonds in the first half of 2015 rising 26% compared to the first six months of 2014.

University of North Carolina professor Pab Jotikasthira wins the James A. Lebenthal Memorial prize for best paper submitted at the Brandeis Municipal Finance Conference.

President Obama appointed Beverly Scott, former general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, to the National Transportation Safety Board.

The addition of Plainridge Park Casino, the first to open in Massachusetts, has heated up the competition for gamblers, according to Fitch Ratings.

Former Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr will speak at a municipal finance conference in Boston hosted by Brandeis International Business School and the Federal Reserve Bank.

Massachusetts Port Authority officials say upgrades from two rating agencies boosted their $171.5 million revenue bond sale.