Infrastructure

Members of a bipartisan panel appear to agree in principle on a long-term proposal to narrow the state's annual highway funding gap by using more state revenue, adding taxes and fees and lowering annual bonding for transportation.

Opponents to the under-the-radar provision say its harshness could impede the execution of the MTA's new capital program by deterring contractors.

Missouri officials are balking at approving $30 million in state aid to help finance the construction of a Major League Soccer stadium in downtown St. Louis.

A new fiscal plan adopted by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey increases debt service payments by 8% to support large-scale infrastructure efforts.

Reuben R. McDaniel III will head the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York.

Observers say the deal with the Transport Workers Union could strain the authority's operating and capital budgets.

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority will sell the debt to fund 600 buses and 17 trains.

Democrat Gretchen Whitmer will sign a supplemental bill restoring more than half of the funding she vetoed in a policy dispute with the GOP-led legislature.

Forecasters predict the Washington D.C. area population will grow by more than a million people by 2045.

The town of Waterford decided to go ahead with refunding its $15,640,000 in general obligation bonds at its recent Representative Town Meeting.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is pushing for tolls on large trucks despite a federal judge's ruling that a lawsuit against Rhode Island’s system can proceed.

The Florida Department of Transportation was ordered to raise toll rates on the Garcon Point Bridge for the first time in eight years.

The state government would reshuffle Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funds to the city.

Bonds backed by a tax increment financing program are central to a $400 million economic development plan.

The RTA's service boards will receive $3.7 billion in new funding from the state's $45 billion infrastructure program.

American Triple I Partners LLC will work in partnership with JetBlue and JFK Millennium Partners on the Terminal 6 and 7 redevelopment project at New York’s JFK International Airport.

The Providence-based bank originated in 2013 as an outgrowth of its predecessor agency, the Rhode Island Clean Water Finance Agency.

The Navajo are among several tribal nations pursuing renewable energy projects in a changing generation landscape.

The Bay State's transportation and congestion crisis puts its economic viability in jeopardy, officials say.

Each state would be guaranteed $25 million in bonding authority each year, with an additional $1.25 billion in authority allocated among the states according to rural population.