Economy

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport continues its record-setting pace for bond issuance Tuesday with a $259 million refunding deal.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the operator of Miami-Dade County, Fla.'s largest hospital with defrauding investors by failing to disclose its financial woes prior to an $83 million bond offering.

Indiana University Health, the state's largest health care system, announced Sept. 11 that it will lay off 800 employees by the end of the year to save money.

A measure to restore some funding that Orange County, Calif., lost during changes in apportionment of a state vehicle license fee passed the California legislature.

Falling traffic and growing competition from Denver International Airport led Standard & Poors to downgrade Colorado Springs Airport revenue bonds to BBB-plus.

To keep the ball rolling on building a new $3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge, the New York Thruway Authority will sell a $700 million bond anticipation note.

A bankruptcy judge confirmed American Airlines’ reorganization plan but its exit from Chapter 11 depends on resolution of the antitrust lawsuit against its merger with US Airways Group.

Washington is planning to sell $295 million of bonds backed by federal highway grants next week to continue financing its floating bridge project over Lake Washington.

The Illinois Finance Authority advanced borrowing plans by Presence Health and several other elementary and higher education institutions totaling more than $400 million this week.

Moody's Investors Service expects an increase in toll roads and toll-supported projects, the ratings agency said in a report.

A P3 involving Harrisburg’s parking assets would provide back-end revenue and avoid a Chicago-type fiasco in Pennsylvania’s capital, a receivership official said.

Kentucky and Indiana officials set the base toll rates that drivers will pay on the $2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges Project at a special meeting Sept. 11.

The Kentucky Turnpike Authority expects to price $186.85 million of new road revenue bonds this week.

A regional commission to operate Charlotte-Douglas International Airport is being appointed while the FAA is determining if the panel can hold the airport’s operating license.

The multi-billion dollar Columbia River Crossing project may be financially viable as long as certain conditions are met, according to a top official in the Oregon State Treasury.

A political landscape marked by anti-privatization sentiments may have left Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel little choice but to drop the city's bid to lease Midway International.

Courts are forcing SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Long Island College Hospital to resume services despite its loss of money.

The Florida Department of Transportation is seeking proposals from investors and developers to finance, design, and build the state's first privately operated tolled expressway.

Hawaii’s Department of Budget and Finance will act as the conduit issuer for Hawaii Pacific Health on $160 million in special purpose revenue bonds expected to price Tuesday.

Alameda County is planning to sell $287 million of lease revenue bonds this week to finance the expansion of health care buildings at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif.