Northeast

New York City's budget is balanced for the current fiscal year, but dark shadows hover, according to an analysis by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority should increase its base fare to $2.50 from $2.25 among other changes, Chairman Joseph Lhota told the board.

Connecticut's persistent budget deficits will be the subject of a special legislative session in which Gov. Dannel Malloy will ask for budget cuts, not long after authorizing Treasurer Denise Nappier to tap an emergency cash flow credit line.

The leader of Harrisburg, Pa.'s regional chamber of commerce resigned from the city's municipal financial recovery advisory committee amid backlash over a video lampooning Harrisburg's debt crisis.

New York City's sale of $1 billion of tax-exempt refunding general obligation bonds on Tuesday represented an increase of 18% from the expected $850 million par amount.

New York State government plans to sell at least $1.44 billion in bonds by the start of April.

Voters in several New Jersey communities approved $55.6 million in bond last week.

A $100 million bond to buy out homeowners in flood-prone areas is advancing through the New Jersey General Assembly.

Massachusetts Treasurer Steven Grossman named Jessie Saintcyr as deputy treasurer, making his senior human resources official, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, one of his top five advisors.

Pennsylvania Education Commissioner Ron Tomalis named Gene Veno chief recovery officer for Harrisburg's schools in what could be a prelude to receivership.