Northeast

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority plans its fourth issuance of the calendar year, a $158 million sale of housing mortgage finance program bonds.

Raising the state gas tax and tolling East River and other bridges could help New York's MTA fill a gap of at least $15.2 billion, said former chairman Richard Ravitch.

The Penn. requirement that the Philadelphia School District's teachers pay 5%, 10% or 13% of their healthcare premiums is a credit positive for the district, Moody's Investors Service said.

Hartford Treasurer Adam Cloud said two negative bond-rating actions already this month could serve as wakeup calls in Connecticut's capital.

A switch to a 401(k) retirement plan from its current defined benefit plan would add $42 billion to New Jersey's pension debt, a liberal think tank said Tuesday.

State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale and six central Pennsylvania mayors will discuss local finances in an Oct. 27 roundtable discussion in Harrisburg.

Former New York Lieutenant Gov. Richard Ravitch will speak at the New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn. N.Y., on Oct. 9.

The cost of Maryland's Purple Line rail project has risen to $2.45 billion, up $21 million since September and almost $1.5 billion more than projected in 2007, according to the latest estimate by the Maryland Transit Administration.

After Moody's revised Rhode Island's outlook to stable from negative, Gov. Lincoln Chafee said the state is headed in the right direction.

The New York Liberty Development Corp. board Monday approved selling $1.78 billion in mostly tax-exempt bonds to complete 3 World Trade Center.