Economy

An overwhelming majority of Texans seem ready to approve a ballot measure moving $1.7 billion/ year into the state road fund.

Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook on the Baa2 rated Albert Einstein Healthcare Network to negative from stable.

Standard & Poor's on Friday announced that it would take no rating action on Texas Health Resources as two nurses who contracted Ebola from a patient at its Presbyterian Dallas hospital were declared cured.

Local government groups tell Congress they want a bigger share of road funding in the next multi-year federal highway bill.

As New York MTA scurries to fund its capital plan, transit advocates debate whether governance is a funding and planning impediment.

Good Shepherd Medical Center faces another possible downgrade on its junk-bond rating from Moody's Investors Service after missing a deadline to sell assets, analysts warned.

Maryland voters will decide whether to constitutionally prohibit lawmakers from diverting transportation-dedicated tax revenues to other purposes.

Charges were dropped against one person after former Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority board member Scott Batterson gets prison.

Fitch Ratings has upgraded the ratings on debt issued for the Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon to A-minus from BBB-plus.

A new train station in downtown Dallas may be the northern terminal of a 240-mile privately financed high-speed rail line to Houston.

Containment of the Ebola virus in the U.S. could minimize financial impact on U.S. healthcare providers, but continued spread would raise a large number of unknowns, Standard & Poor's reports.

Work will get under way next year on D.C.'s $54 billion, 25-year transportation plan, including a new bridge over the Anacostia River.

Fully funding its next four-year capital program without burdening riders poses an immediate challenge for New York's MTA, according to state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

William Ronan, the first chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, died at age 101.

While finding new revenue sources for highway improvements is indeed a thorny political issue, analysts at Conning feel that the credit quality of the existing bonds remains sound.

Moody's Investors Service upgraded St. Joseph's Healthcare System (N.J.) to Baa3 from Ba1 on Oct. 17.

Moody's Investors Service affirmed Loma Linda University Medical Center, Calif.'s Baa3 revenue bond rating.

Moody's Investors Service shifted its outlook on Texas Health Resources to "developing" from "positive" after its Dallas hospital's handling of the nation's first Ebola case.

Four years after its launch, the $2.1 billion North Tarrant Express is open to traffic and providing a financial model for other projects in the state, developers say.

In a major boost for California's high-speed rail project, the California Supreme Court declined to consider petitions challenging funding for the state's bullet train.