Infrastructure

Rep. Steve Stivers plans to use the recruiting skills he honed as chair of the House GOP campaign arm to enlist new members of the bipartisan Municipal Finance Caucus in the next Congress.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants a second look at the planned L-train shutdown while Sen. Charles Schumer called the authority slow in positive train control.

Hasan Ikhrato joins the San Diego Association of Governments, which has been without an executive director since Gary Gallegos stepped down amid scandal in 2017.

Fitch Ratings said the BB-minus rating on Brightline’s $600 million of private activity bonds was removed because the project has changed strategic focus.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority faces a plate of challenges as crowded as its trains at New York rush hour.

Site-selection expert John Boyd Jr. breaks down who won and lost in the Amazon "sweepstakes," the role of public incentives and the next wave of corporate relocation. Paul Burton hosts.

The University of Connecticut envisions a development partnership through a special-purpose entity to construct a hockey arena on its Storrs campus.

Tim Romer, Goldman Sachs’ longtime head of West Region, will retire in early 2019, leaving his post in the public sector and infrastructure banking group to Ritu Kalra.

The $1.8 billion Chicago O’Hare Airport deal tops a $9 billion new issue calendar that will slake the thirst of a supply deprived municipal bond market this week.

Insurance companies are eager to invest in infrastructure with the right policy support, a new white paper said.

Florida agencies will negotiate with the private rail operator, currently known as Brightline, to build tracks for passenger service to Tampa.

As governments increasingly tap into analytics for policymaking, risks accompany benefits.

Democratic control of the House of Representatives may lower the barrier to sustainable transportation funding, said Bond Buyer conference participants.

The Federal Transit Administration has not yet awarded $760 million of the $2.62 billion Congress set aside for transit grants in fiscal 2018 almost two months after the end of the budget year.

The New York City comptroller's affordable housing initiative hinges on state approval of real-estate tax shifts and the creation of a land bank.

The president initiated the request for the luncheon meeting after Cuomo last month sent Trump a five-minute video showing the leaking walls and interior deterioration of the existing 108-year-old tunnel.

The deal clears one legal obstacle to the upcoming issuance of PABs, although two other challengers plan to pursue a federal lawsuit.

The state plans to price $190 million of general obligation highway capital improvement bonds.

Once a high-profile story of fiscal mismanagement, D.C. is now providing an example other large cities are exploring for themselves.

Mike Barlow and Cornelia Levy-Bencheton, authors of Smart Cities, Smart Future, discuss the impact of this global movement of technology and innovation for municipalities, on infrastructure and P3s and for municipal green bonds. Chip Barnett hosts.