Massachusetts

A multi-year pattern of balanced budgets helped Bridgewater, Mass., regain its credibility in the capital markets.

Massachusetts plans a sale of MassDirect notes, a rolling program aimed to attract retail investors and modeled after the U.S. Treasury's TreasuryDirect.

Michael McGirr and Erin McCafferty will join the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management private equity team.

Standard & Poor's, citing its local GO criteria, raised its rating on Boston's general obligation bonds to AAA from AA-plus,

The full Massachusetts Senate on Thursday is expected to debate a five-year transportation borrowing bill that has risen to $13.2 billion.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced $100 million in renovations to Boston's Logan Airport, to be funded through Massport's capital plan.

Under a pay-for-success initiative, Massachusetts embarks on $27 million, seven-year program designed to reduce incarceration rates for at-risk young men.

MBTA Retirement Fund officials defended the secretive practices of the $1.6 billion fund, which manages the retirement accounts of Boston-area transit employees.

Voters in Revere, Mass., approved a $1.3 billion proposal by Mohegan Sun that will compete with Wynn Resorts for the Greater Boston resort casino license.

S&P raised its GO rating for Amherst, Mass., home of the University of Massachusetts, to AA-plus from AA, citing the town's strong budgetary performance.

Northeast issuers sold $93.1 billion of municipal bonds in 2013, down 17.4% from 2012.

Without taxpayer support, the ubersecretive $1.6 billion MBTA retirement fund would go broke between 2024 and 2036, said a report by Boston's Pioneer Institute.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority awarded a $23.9 million contract to repair three bridges spanning the Merrimack River in Haverhill.

Standard & Poor's raised its general obligation rating for Springfield, Mass., to AA-minus from A, with a stable outlook.

Massachusetts will advance its timetable by four years to 2036 for fully funding its pension system, under the budget Gov. Deval Patrick's administration has proposed.

Gov. Deval Patrick submitted his final budget to Massachusetts lawmakers Wednesday, proposing a $36 billion spending plan for fiscal 2015 that would increase spending nearly 5%.

The Massachusetts pension reserves investment trust fund returned 15.2% in calendar 2013, marking an investment gain of $7.9 billion, according to the Pension Reserves Investment Management board.

Boston is weighing a push for Massachusetts casino host community status even though voters in one neighborhood rejected one proposal.

The frenetic scramble for Massachusetts resort casino licenses has generated a host of intricate, juicy moving parts -- bizarre, even by Bay State standards.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Beverly Scott will receive the Transportation Research Board's Sharon D. Banks Award for humanitarian leadership in transportation.