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Jefferson County, N.Y., legislators approved a resolution to issue $99 million in revenue bonds for Samaritan Medical Center.

Corbally will advise endowments, foundations, pension funds, and other institutions.

Health care giant University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans to spend $235 million in the Harrisburg, York and Lancaster areas in 2018. Much of it would go toward a new hospital in York, with some also spent at three other midstate hospitals.

The new fee would add one more to a slew of fees dealers already pay to the MSRB.

Newport News' Industrial Development Authority on Friday approved issuing $50 million of revenue bonds on behalf of Riverside Healthcare Association so that the hospital group can fund $130 million of renovations and new projects at its facilities in Newport News and Gloucester and Essex counties.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is poised ask voters to approve bonds this fall to fund improvements to city parks, community centers, fire stations and health clinics, adding hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to a crowded November ballot.

Opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act has been widespread

New York City has become the first pension system in the nation to have totally divested its holdings in private prison companies, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer said on Thursday.

Pennsylvania's Senate passed a bill to overhaul retiree benefits.

NAST is expected to hire a new executive director as John Provenzano leaves to start a new job as vice president of government relations for Publix Super Markets.