Economy

House and Senate appropriators unveiled a $1.012 trillion bipartisan omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2014 late Monday that would provide funds for transportation and many other programs but not high speed rail.

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday said he expects to have a new funding law for highways, ports, bridges and transit in place before the current one expires on Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2014.

The Court of Appeals, New York State's highest court, dismissed Nassau County's legal challenge to the MTA's payroll mobility tax by refusing to hear the case.

California Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo, has filed paperwork for a ballot measure that would prohibit the sale of voter-approved bonds for the state's high speed rail project.

More state transportation P3 projects are on the horizon for 2014 due to declines in state and federal funding streams, Fitch said in a report

Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler said he won't approve the issuance of over $1.5 billion bonds for the Columbia River Crossing project until there is more certainty on toll collections.

The Phoenix area will see its light rail system grow with this week's $115 million of sales tax-backed bonds.

Two ratings agencies have revised their outlooks on Iowa-based Mercy Medical Center's A level ratings to negative due to the hospital's operating struggles.

The triple-A Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Council is readying $194 million of general obligation notes and bonds for competitive sale Tuesday.

Eleven U.S. cities are among the first in the 33 of 100 in the world picked by the Rockefeller Foundation to receive financial assistance in developing more-resilient infrastructure to resist catastrophic events.

Standard & Poor's on Jan. 8 raised to investment grade the underlying rating of Citrus Valley Health Partners' certificates of participation and gave the COPs a positive outlook.

A coalition representing Detroit retirees sued in federal court to block the city from implementing health care changes that would shift older employees to Medicare and younger ones to the state-based health care exchange.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper called for more public-private partnerships for water and transportation in his state-of-the-state address Jan. 9.

Howard Permut will retire as president of Metro-North Railroad, New York's MTA announced, and be replaced by Joseph Giulietti.

A bill abolishing the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority and replacing it with a regional the toll-road agency cleared a Florida Senate Committee.

Maryland has selected four international construction consortiums to submit proposals to build, maintain and operate the proposed $2.2 billion Purple Line light-rail system that would connect Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced several expensive infrastructure projects that may involve bonding in his annual state of the state address.

Metro-North would add four stations in the Bronx and provide direct access to Penn Station under a plan Gov. Andrew Cuomo endorsed in his State of the State speech.

Central Florida's Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority selected state Rep. Steve Precourt, R-Orlando, to be the agency's new director.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx lent his support to Texas' high-speed-rail plans at the annual Texas Transportation Forum.