Northeast

As baseball season opened, the operator of parking garages at New York's Yankee Stadium fell into default, missing a $6.9 million bond interest payment.

New York State adopted a new budget for fiscal 2014 Thursday, the third year in a row that the state has adopted a budget before the fiscal year's start on April 1.

Pennsylvania will sell $950 million in general obligation bonds on Wednesday morning.

State lawmakers in Maine are feuding with the governor over bond issuance in a standoff that will impact the fate of Maine's hospitals, its infrastructure, and its alcohol consumers.

A budget commission will begin moving East Providence back to local control, said Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee and Revenue Director Rosemary Booth Gallogly.

Allentown, Pa., has extended the deadline to respond to its request for bids to privatize its water and sewer utility system under a 50-year lease to noon Friday.

Harrisburg, Pa., issued a request for proposals to privatize trash pickup, but Mayor Linda Thompson's derogatory remark turned the announcement into another theater of the absurd.

Altoona has received a $519,000 grant to support new technologies that will help the financially distressed city implement its financial recovery plan.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Krancer will leave to rejoin the Philadelphia office of Blank Rome LLP.

Tax collections in February were down 5.6% in New York state government compared to February 2012.