Northeast

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his $82.2 billion executive budget, which he said relies on “progressive, responsible and honest budgeting.”

Standard & Poor's has discontinued its underlying rating for credit enhancement programs on rated Pennsylvania school districts.

The Baltimore Board of Finance has approved $535 million of TIF bonds for a $5.5 billion waterfront development project.

Three Democratic Senators representing states without sales taxes recently wrote a letter to Senate leadership opposing federal legislation that would impose an Internet tax sales tax on its businesses.

A new bill proposed in the New Jersey State Senate would allow financially distressed Atlantic City and other coastal municipalities to end costly lifeguard pensions.

New Jersey Transit is back to the drawing board looking for someone to lead the nation's third-busiest public transportation system after former Amtrak chief operating officer William Crosbie opted not to take the executive director post just days before his scheduled start date.

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority intends to offer $189 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance single-family mortgages.

California is the least prepared to weather a recession of the four most populous states, according to a Moody’s Investors Service fiscal stress test.

Political jockeying over funding for the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund is putting capital projects throughout the Garden State in danger.

The MTA board authorized Chairman Thomas Prendergast to settle a dispute with New York City officials over the proposed 99-year lease of its former headquarters.