Northeast

Northeastern University plans to sell municipal bonds to help replace its 115-year-old Matthews Arena, long-ago home of the Boston Bruins and Celtics.

Maryland lawmakers proposed a new tax on business-to-business transactions to close a $3 billion budget gap amid the firing of thousands of federal employees.

Gov. Phil Murphy highlighted pensions and fiscal responsibility in his budget address. 

Trustees of New Jersey City University voted to approve the pursuit of a merger with Kean University, a larger fellow state university 12 miles away.

A district judge in Rhode Island issued a second order telling the administration to halt its grant freeze, saying his first order is not being followed.

New York Judge Andrew Borrok said a ruling on the summary judgments could come by late April after "a lot of sitting and writing and thinking."

The city's Independent Budget Office projects New York's operating surplus as a percentage of tax revenue will fall to 4.8% at the end of the fiscal year.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority plans to make an impact on the municipal market this month with $1.8 billion of bond sales.

It was 2024's biggest national conduit. You may not have heard of it. New Hampshire's National Finance Authority has become a big issuer with a low profile.

The MTA took a victory lap on congestion pricing, presenting new data and rebuking the "existential threat" from the White House.