Pennsylvania

Joe Torsella cited the legislature's approval of a revenue package to balance the fiscal 2018 budget.

State-related and other schools are taking a good, hard look at their business models.

Legislative leaders say the move will plug a $2.2 billion budget shortage and end a nearly five-month budget impasse.

Quaker Valley school board members approved a $10 million bond resolution that district leaders would use toward purchasing land for a new high school.

Uncertainly remains over whether any changes will have a lasting impact, according to Jessica Giroux.

The petition calls the $1.25 billion budget-balancing move unconstitutional.

The district's financial advisor has proposed issuing $9.9 million in bonds this year, next year and in 2020, with a much larger $23.65 million bond in 2019.

Judge James Gibbons allowed the city to appeal immediately to the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Senate consideration is next as Pennsylvania winds through the fourth month of its budget stalemate.

The mayor's office said the survey by City Controller Alan Butkovitz, a soda tax opponent, wasn't impartial.

The short-term lifeline will enable the commonwealth to make Medicaid payments while it will lacks a revenue plan.

The governor said the lease agreement could provide $200 million up front for the cash-strapped state.

S&P Global Ratings cited concerns about operating margins at the Philadelphia university.

Lawmakers can't agree on how to fund the state budget, while the governor looks for a loan from the state liquor monopoly.

The governor said he would borrow against $1.25 billion in profits from the state liquor system.

Franklin Regional School District's financial adviser has recommended the board issue $9.9 million in bonds.

The rating agency calls on the commonwealth to match recurring revenues with expenses.

The story behind a state’s rainy day fund should be weighed heavily, some municipal analysts said at a recent event.

The region's manufacturing sector expanded in September as the general business conditions index increased to 23.8 from 18.9 in August, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Report on Business.

House Majority Leader Dave Reed blames 'a small group of unknown people' at S&P for the state's downgrade while the Senate rejects a House revenue plan.