Northeast

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is selling New York City bus and subway transit MetroCards with front-facing ads for the first time.

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission sold bridge system revenue refunding bonds after receiving positive outlooks from Moody's and Standard & Poor's.

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority administrator Beverly Scott will become the new general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

In an annual report on the state's finances, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli finds that spending since 2008 has increased by 15%.

Acting on an emergency basis, the City Council in cash-strapped Scranton, Pa., adopted a 1% commuter tax, which still needs approval from a Lackawanna County Court.

Rhode Island's $81.4 million GO bond sale priced at the lowest cost-of-capital ever for the state, said Treasurer Gina Raimondo and lead underwriter Barclays.

Roger Nutt will resign as chief executive of the embattled Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, which the state auditor said was "drowning in debt."

The Citizens Budget Commission watchdog group, calling the financing arrangements of New York's MTA "volatile and insufficient," proposes an alternative that it said would curb deficits.

Harrisburg, Pa. receiver William Lynch named an entity created by Guggenheim Securities to negotiate exclusively for a long-term lease to manage city parking garages.

Uncertainty continues to hover over the securities industry in New York City, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in his annual Wall Street report.