Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania's House of Representatives was scheduled to debate a $2.4 billion transportation bill that Senate counterparts approved a day earlier.

The Pennsylvania agency overseeing Harrisburg's financial recovery has petitioned a court to extend the term of city receiver William Lynch for two more years.

Under the glare of bond rating agencies and banks, Scranton, Pa., Mayor Chris Doherty submitted a $130.2 million budget that closes a $20 million gap.

The Philadelphia Mutual Analyst Society held its inaugural meeting Logan Square with goal of becoming a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.

The Harrisburg City Council OK'd a $270 million parking-asset lease that is one of two lynchpins to the financial recovery plan in Pennsylvania's capital city.

Philadelphia charter schools face growing credit risks, Standard & Poor's reports.

Scranton., Pa., risks default as it faces a $20 million budget gap and a further $28 million to settle a pension award with a Friday deadline to introduce its budget, according to Moody's.

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Moody's revised its outlook on Penn State to positive from stable, citing the $60 million settlement with sex-abuse victims of ex-assistant football coach Gerry Sandusky.

Texas voters approved a $2 billion water bond program Tuesday in the largest of many bond related issues voters decided in the off-year.

Bookstore owner Eric Papenfuse defeated city controller Dan Miller in the open-seat mayoral election in distressed Harrisburg, Pa.

The Dauphin County, Pa. commissioners voted to approve $170 million in revenue bonds related to the parking lease deal in Harrisburg, Pa.'s debt-recovery plan.

Trimont Real Estate Advisors will replace AEW Capital Management as asset manager for the proposed $260 million Harrisburg, Pa., parking deal.

The network of muni credit professionals in Philadelphia has spawned a local analyst group that will launch next month with a Logan Square reception.

Philadelphia Treasurer Nancy Winkler is the 2013 recipient of the Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance. She will receive the award from the Northeast Women in Public Finance at The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year Awards Dinner in Manhattan on December 5th.

Delays to pivotal transactions in the Harrisburg Strong plan could force Pennsylvania’s capital city to miss payroll as soon as December, an attorney told the City Council.

Moody's revised its outlook on Allentown, Pa., to stable from negative and affirmed its A3 rating, citing a water system lease deal that plugged a pension gap.

Pennsylvania will sell $750 million in GO bonds under the glare of rating agencies concerned about the state's unfunded pension liability.

Pennsylvania Gov, Tom Corbett has directed the release of $45 million in one-time state funds for use by Philadelphia's teetering school district -- the state's largest --for the upcoming school year.

Fitch Ratings downgraded the Philadelphia School District's underlying rating to BB from BBB-minus, while keeping the enhanced rating at AA-minus.