Northeast

Moody's Investors Service dropped the Long Island county to Baa1 from A3.

A three decade veteran of the municipal market, Marjorie Henning was most recently a director in the municipal securities division at Citigroup.

Pennsylvania’s two largest public pension systems are paying much higher private equity fees than they report -- a nearly $4 billion differential -- a finance professor told an oversight panel.

Amid hurricanes and other natural disasters and with federal funding a wild card, municipalities and states adjust.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says the state will save $497 million over two years.

The budget Nassau County Executive Laura Curran released this week aims to tackle past debt incurred by the prior administration.

Connecticut’s planned issue of credit revenue bonds is a “potentially terrible long-term solution,” says Municipal Market Analytics.

Clifford A. Goldman, state treasurer from 1976 to 1982, was a chief architect of the state’s first income tax.

Quantifying the related financial damage will take time, said the rating agency.

Legacy costs are crowding out programmatic spending, according to a report by the Citizens Budget Commission's Ana Champeny and Maria Doulis.