Pennsylvania

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.

State officials filed an application Thursday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania to vacate the receivership for capital city Harrisburg.

Harrisburg would exit receivership while remaining under state oversight under a plan by Pennsylvania officials.

A former Pennsylvania Turnpike worker pleaded guilty and received probation in a case the judge called an "offshoot" of a pay-to-play scandal.

New Mayor Bill Peduto is smart to delay Pittsburgh's request to exit a state oversight program for distressed communities, capital markets observers say.