Pennsylvania

Harrisburg, Pa., will officially exit state receivership on Saturday while remaining under less intensive oversight.

Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation is exploring a P3 project to redevelop 11 Amtrak stations along the Harrisburg-to-Philadelphia corridor.

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

PFM director David Eichenthal will discuss his new book, “The Art of the Watchdog,” at a meeting of the Philadelphia organization The Committee of Seventy.

Moody's revised its outlook on Lancaster County, Pa.'s general obligation bonds.

Five consortiums have submitted statements of qualification for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's rapid bridge replacement P3 project.

Pennsylvania House Speaker Sam Smith will not seek re-election, ending a 27-year legislative career.

The Harrisburg, Pa., City Council tabled a vote to authorize up to $4 million to issue tax and revenue anticipation notes, while it OK'd a $78 million budget.

Harrisburg and its firefighters union agreed on concessions that will enable Pennsylvania's distressed capital to balance its budget.

Widener University School of Law's Harrisburg, Pa., campus has scheduled a daylong conference on municipal financial distress for April.

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto inherits a city on the upswing, but wants it to remain under state oversight while he works out a long-term financial plan.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski withdrew from the Pennsylvania governor's race and backed state treasurer and fellow Democrat Rob McCord.

Gov. Tom Corbett on Tuesday proposed a $29.4 billion budget for Pennsylvania that included a renewed call to tweak the pension system for state employees.

Contingent liabilities for nonessential, noncore enterprises pose huge credit risk for some local governments, Moody's said in a report that cited Harrisburg.

New Mayor Bill Peduto wants Pittsburgh to firm up a long-term program of payments in lieu of taxes with the many nonprofit organizations while staying in Pennsylvania's Act 47 program for cities in fiscal distress.

Harrisburg, Pa., officials seek $2 million in the municipal budget to issue tax and revenue anticipation notes, which would mark a return to the debt markets.

Blank Rome LLP's public finance team is joining Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC in Philadelphia, becoming the firm's only public finance attorneys based in the city, officials said.

The board of Pennsylvania's pension fund system recommended hiring Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel to examine allegations against former CIO Anthony Clark.

Pennsylvania's intercept program that enforces the payment of school district bonds is a positive for investors, Janney Capital Markets said in a report.

Two lynchpin bond sales under the Harrisburg, Pa., recovery plan priced within the expected range when receivership officials filed the plan in August, according to a status report.