Economy

Bipartisan caucus of lawmakers wants to meet with President Trump on developing consensus tax reform, infrastructure legislation.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice wants a higher gasoline tax to support up to $2.8 billion of road bonds.

Membership substitution transactions are the most common form of business combination transaction in the nonprofit hospital industry. They are also widely misunderstood and the source of many mistakes.

Texas Central Rail has dropped eminent domain lawsuits due to “positive dialogue” with many landowners.

Healthcare and utilities municipal bond issuance grew by a combined $27 billion to 2016 from 2015.

Chicago is stepping up a long-stalled effort to establish an express rail service from downtown Chicago to O'Hare International Airport, its mayor said.

Expanding the use of private activity bonds to more projects could be essential part of President Trump’s infrastructure program.

House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, worried that Republicans are sabotaging the Affordable Care Act, have asked three federal agencies for information about how they are implementing President Trump’s executive order on repealing the law.

Tax-exempt municipal bonds are critical to any infrastructure plan, a county official representing the National Association of Counties said at a hearing held by a Senate committee on Wednesday.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s $40.6 billion biennial budget measures aim to closing a $1.7 billion annual deficit. He also wants to tax hospital properties for the first time.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has begun a request for proposals process for a train connection to LaGuardia Airport.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has formed a task force charged with recommending how to tackle local governments’ unfunded retirement obligations.

California Republicans have asked the Trump administration to block federal aid to the state's high speed rail project.

Projects in South Carolina’s $5 billion infrastructure request includes interstate highway upgrades and harbor dredging.

DALLAS – President Trump’s infrastructure proposal’s reliance on public-private partnerships to rebuild America’s crumbling highways would provide limited benefits to urban areas while leaving rural states out of the mix, according to a coalition of truckers and shippers opposed to tolls on interstate highways.

In a critical year for the Texas health-care industry, the state's leaders have indicated no interest in tapping the state's growing rainy day fund to cover $1.2 billion in Medicaid underfunding.

Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., introduces bill to obtain revenues for the Highway Trust Fund and New Democrat Coalition forms infrastructure task force.

Lakeland Regional Health and Orlando Health disclosed to bondholders on EMMA that they have signed a letter of intent to create an integrated regional health care system.

Tennessee House GOP leaders are at odds with Republican Gov. Bill Haslam over road funding proposals.

North Carolina’s $38 billion of unfunded pension and retiree healthcare costs led a key committee to advise raising the state’s debt capacity and increasing annual funding to address the liabilities.