Northeast

Pennsylvania State Sen. Mike Folmer plans to introduce a legislative package to deal with issues related to capital city Harrisburg's debt crisis.

The underwriter groups New York City and its financing authorities chose last week included a high number of minority- and women-owned business enterprises.

The challenge to Rhode Island's pension overhaul law, for now, is in the hands of an independent federal mediation agency.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee appointed John "J.R." Pagliarini chief of staff to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp., the agency under fire over its $75 million loan guarantee to 38 Studios.

Highmark and West Penn Allegheny Health System poached a group of five obstetricians and gynecologists previously affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, D-Scarsdale, has filed a bill in the New York State Assembly to try out open bidding for local municipal bonds.

New York State tax collections through November were 1.7% below initial estimates in April, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.

A new governor taking over should not affect New Hampshire's bond sales, said state Treasurer Catherine Provencher.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is considering an anticrash system for its streetcars, but would have to pay around $700 million and take nine years to implement it.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is projecting a shortfall of up to $89 billion for infrastructure funding in the next 20 years.