Infrastructure

Muni market professionals would welcome a long-term transportation bill, and some believe the new year offers a window.

UMB Bank also wants the Florida Department of Transportation to pay $75 million in damages.

The agency met an important safety-law deadline and will implement a new law designed to improve its transparency and require better budget planning.

Reps. Brian Mast and Bill Posey asked Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao not to extend a Dec. 31 deadline to issue private activity bonds.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit will finance a 26-mile commuter rail line to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport with a $908 million RRIF loan.

Moody's underscored the sense of uncertainty facing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by dropping its outlook to negative.

The El Paso County Commissioners Court has approved tax rebates to help pay for the renovation of the Plaza Hotel building.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's troubleshooting plan for New York public housing features three new programs.

Applications doubled from 2017, growing to 851 from all 50 states and also U.S. territories.

Pension and other retirement benefits still pose a stiff challenge, the organization said in its annual report card on the states.

The private passenger train project in Florida also faces new litigation from longtime adversary Indian River County.

“We have starved our state of a fundamental economic investment and job creator,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

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.