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The borrowing will pay for settlements with six casino properties.

Nicotine reduction could reduce the lure of smoking and the taxes cigarettes generate.

Eugene DePasquale urged the system to pay Wall Street less and better educate its board members.

Ronnie Lowenstein, director of the watchdog New York City Independent Budget Office, examines the city's economy, its budget and its variables. Hosted by Paul Burton and Chip Barnett.

The vote culminated a five-year effort designed to fund public improvements, notably to transit infrastructure.

Stratford Shields, a long-time municipal finance professional, comes to Wells from RBC Capital Markets in Chicago.

Penobscot County, Maine, voters will not be asked until 2018 to fund renovations at Bangor's former YMCA building to ease jail overcrowding, according to County Commissioner Peter Baldacci.

The end of a casino revenue sharing agreement impacts the city's credit, says S&P.

A Lackawanna County court says a state law that caps tax rates supersedes city home-rule provisions.

Year's end is the new target to launch the first segment of the Brightline train service.