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The city council is considering the city's budget, which gave preliminary approval to a roughly $5.2 billion spending plan that allocates $156 million for violence prevention programs. Council members expect to vote on the budget Thursday.

Employers and employees don't agree on what a return-to-normal looks like in a post-COVID world. But to move forward with success, they must see eye-to-eye.

With the mayor's race riveted on public safety, candidates discussed the city’s finances in a televised debate.

As lawmakers debate a new two-year budget, the state increased general fund revenue projections by $4.4 billion.

One of the city's most significant elections is also one of the strangest with a pandemic, an open seat, crime and financial strife, and ranked-choice voting at play.

Recovering air passenger numbers were one factor Fitch Ratings cited in revising the Port of Seattle's outlook to stable from negative.

The businessman and former Assembly member looks to prevent the first re-election of a Democratic governor in more than 40 years.

The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority will draw from a state backup pledge and $30 million of state subsidies as it emerges from the pandemic.

If Congress does not act on the island’s Medicaid funding by the end of September, the funding shortfall would force officials to drop an estimated 800,000 people from the rolls.

A total of $14.8 billion of par has been wrapped by bond insurance through May of this year, compared to $9.76 billion through the end of May 2020.

The Fed will gradually sell its portfolio of corporate debt purchased through an emergency lending facility launched as the COVID-19 pandemic spread panic through financial markets.

The budget pays off Municipal Liquidity Fund loans, goes easier on local governments, cuts some corporate incentives, and begins drawing down federal relief.

A Moody's downgrade on San Antonio's convention hotel bonds came with the lowering of the outlook to negative on the city's Aaa issuer rating.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley described the proposal as “a good faith offer and a significant step in the right direction.”

Given that subway safety concerns could impair a rebound from COVID-19, recent spikes in crime and levels of policing triggered spirited discussion at a board meeting.

Cruise ship ports in the U.S. may see some light at the end of the tunnel after more than a year without any departures because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Incumbents Bill Peduto and Eric Papenfuse were unseated, the Allentown race is too close to call and constitutional amendments to curb a governor's emergency powers appear headed to victory.

Federal aid and vaccine distribution boosted the city's finances and optimism for economic recovery, but uncertainty lurks at the national and state levels.

States are well-positioned to emerge from COVID-19, the investment firm said in its annual grading.

Three upgrades in two days and four in six weeks mark the state's first bond-rating upgrades in 20 years.