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Public finance attorney Kenneth Lind was made partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, the firm announced Tuesday. Lind has served as bond counsel at the firm’s New York City office since leaving the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority in January 2008, where he had been acting finance director.

Rhode Island Treasurer Frank Caprio on Monday urged Moody's Investors Service to withhold its rating on a $75 million taxable bond deal that would finance the relocation of a video game company headed by former Red Sox baseball player Curt Schilling.

Moody's Investors Service Monday downgraded Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts to Baa1 from A3 as the health care provider plans to increase its debt load dramatically to help finance a new patient tower. The outlook is stable.

WASHINGTON — As Maryland’s treasurer, Nancy K. Kopp has steered the state through the recession from her position on a financial oversight board, ­wielding the knife for spending cuts with a greater authority than other state treasurers.

The developer of an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan will seek $70 million of tax-exempt bond financing to build the new $100 million facility modeled after religiously affiliated community organizations like the YMCA or New York’s 92nd Street Y, according to a news report.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is auditing financial and management operations at the Philadelphia Housing Authority in the wake of allegations it asked vendors to donate to certain charities and events benefitting its executive director, Carl Greene.

At a time when government is shrinking, the new office overseeing New York’s public authorities is looking to expand. The Authorities Budget Office, created under reform legislation last year, wants to add four new staff members in the near term as the agency writes regulations over the next six to eight months.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday approved a financing agreement on World Trade Center development that clears the way for the refunding of $2.59 billion of escrowed Liberty bonds next month.

New York plans to price two delayed personal income-tax bond deals totaling $1.66 billion over the next two months.

The Harrisburg City Council Tuesday night tabled two nominees to the Harrisburg Authority’s board, continuing a political standoff with the mayor that has left the board without a quorum and bondholders with an uncertain future.