Northeast

The New York Thruway Authority will release a finance plan for the new Tappan Zee this month or next.

Fitch Ratings dropped Manchester, N.H.'s airport revenue bonds to BBB-plus from A-minus.

On April 8 mayors from Bangor and several other major Maine cities gathered in Augusta to propose an $85 million bond.

A Maine legislative study of ways to pay off the state's $484 million debt to Maine's hospitals shows that a bond sale would generate the most money.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the underlying ratings on Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission senior lien revenue bonds to A1 from Aa3.

The Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a $500 million transportation bill that would, among other things, shore up a struggling Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

New York's passage of a plan to reduce near-term local pension payments is a credit negative, Moody's Investors Service says.

The Massachusetts House debated an alternative transportation and education financing bill one-fourth the size of what Gov. Deval Patrick has proposed.

Legislation proposed by Don Wagner, R-Irvine, would prohibit a local agency from working with an individual or firm on any bond deal if they provide services to the bond election campaign.

New York's Nassau County is suing its control board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority.