Economy

The Kansas City, Mo. City council has approved a measure that requires any plan that calls for the demolition and reconstruction of terminals at city-owned airports to go to voters.

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences in Missouri received a first time rating of A3 from Moody's Investors Service.

The top two members of the Kenton County Airport Board have resigned amid a special examination into spending practices by Kentucky Auditor Adam Edelen.

The MTA board's finance committee approved a discount for frequent users of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The full board will consider it Wednesday.

Federal Railroad Administration gave California's bullet train authority another 90 days to come up with $180 million of state match for federal spending.

With refunding opportunities fading, municipal bond volume in the Southwest region fell 13% from 2012 to $56 billion in 2013.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has approved 2014 capital and operating budgets.

Local and national transportation officials gathered in Los Angeles Thursday to sign a grant agreement directing $670 million in federal funds to a $1.4 billion project to connect light rail lines now 1.9 miles apart on the opposite ends of downtown Los Angeles.

A Boulder environmental group has vowed to sue the Colorado Department of Transportation to stop a $490 million public-private project on the main highway to Denver.

Without taxpayer support, the ubersecretive $1.6 billion MBTA retirement fund would go broke between 2024 and 2036, said a report by Boston's Pioneer Institute.

Congress must show political courage in expanding federal transportation funding as the Highway Trust Fund dwindles, DOT Secretary Foxx said Thursday.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded the ratings on Northern Inyo Local County Hospital District's revenue bonds to junk.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey adopted a $27.6 billion capital plan focused on transportation projects.

Regional Transportation Authority of Illinois board chairman John Gates announced Wednesday he would step down from the post at the end of his term in June.

The rise in high-deductible health plans could bring more pressure to bear on an already pressured non-profit health care sector, Fitch Ratings said.

A California appeals court has agreed to fast track review of a lower court's decision that prevents the state from issuing $8.6 billion in bonds for its high-speed rail project.

The benefits of stimulus spending on transportation infrastructure during economic downturns outweigh the initial cost, the Transportation Research Board says.

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has adopted a 20-year construction program to meet a federal planning mandate but warned it can't really afford the plan amid dwindling funding.

Five consortiums have submitted statements of qualification for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's rapid bridge replacement P3 project.

Miami-Dade County's repeal of employee healthcare contributions is a credit negative for Florida's largest county, Moody's Investors Service said Feb. 13.