Economy

The Massachusetts Port Authority will come to market with a sale of $251.7 million of bonds for Logan International Airport improvements and refunding.

President Obama's warning that federal transportation funding will dry up is a scare tactic aimed at raising taxes, a conservative group said.

President Obama challenged Congress Tuesday on its inability to resolve the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

Moody's Investors Service placed a negative outlook on Sutter Health’s revenue bonds, based on the system's poor operating performance and significant capital needs.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation and a consortium of eight Long island Rail Road unions are scheduled to meet before the National Mediation Board.

Central and west Florida expressway authorities are set to expand after Gov. Rick Scott signed two bills into law. One creates a new Central Florida Expressway Authority replacing the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority.

A $1 billion plan to create Austin's first urban rail system and to consider other transportation developments won unanimous endorsement from the city council.

Keolis, 70%-owned by the French national railway SNCF, assumed Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail operations.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded Good Shepherd Health System to a junk-bond rating of BB-plus as the East Texas healthcare provider tries to stave off an accelerated debt payment schedule.

The Indiana Finance Authority will sell $250 million of private activity bonds to finance a public-private partnership for a stretch of Interstate 69 that state officials say will be key to the state's future economic health.

The 114-mile segment of California's high speed rail project from Fresno to Bakersfield received the record of decision from U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration enabling it to break ground on that segment.

Nationwide poll finds most Americans would support a higher gas tax if revenues are dedicated to highway and transit projects.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the Detroit-area provider Henry Ford Health System one notch to A3, due to a deteriorating operating performance and struggles tied to implementation of a new electronic medical records system.

The Head of the Senate Finance Committee will work with chairman of House Ways and Means for a quick, temporary fix to the fast-depleting Federal Highway Trust Fund.

New York's MTA would draw down an additional $40 million annually in pay-as-you-go funding under its offer to LIRR unions, chairman Thomas Prendergast said.

Sen. Barbara Boxer supports a proposal for a six-month patch to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent through 2014.

Moody's downgraded the ratings of King's Daughters Medical Center, Ky., to A3 from A2, with a continued negative outlook, partly because of a $41 million Department of Justice settlement.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and former FAA chief Jane Garvey will chair an advisory commission that will study the challenges of New York's MTA.

New York's MTA revised its offer to the Long Island Rail Road workers in an attempt to avoid a strike, offering 17% pay increases over seven years, including a retroactive period

The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a bill that would extend the authority to spend from the Highway Trust Fund through the end of the calendar year.