Politics and policy
Politics and policy
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The former presidential candidate implored New York and New Jersey to enable their cities to execute streamlined project delivery.
April 30 -
Gov. Kate Brown called a special legislative session to consider the proposal.
April 27 -
Amid teacher protests, Colorado lawmakers have two weeks to clear a backlog of bills that include a $5 billion transportation bond authorization and a pension funding measure.
April 26 -
The payment of interest penalties lags as Illinois works to repay its mountain of bills.
April 25 -
Officials want to cast the state's fiscal health in a more positive light even as offering documents lay out a starker assessment.
April 23 -
With competing party-line legislative budgets, a rebuke of both by the governor and a worsening deficit projection, the state is careening toward more fiscal turmoil and further backlash from Wall Street.
April 23 -
Pushing off painful decisions tanked Illinois' ratings while California reaped spread and rating benefits from better choices.
April 20 -
With more than 100 structures closed recently due to potential safety risks, Moody's said the state’s deteriorating infrastructure is credit negative.
April 19 -
With uncertainty surrounding federal infrastructure funding, Tennessee’s capital city is placing a largely locally funded, bond-financed program before voters.
April 18 -
The Legislature approved a $22 billion budget that includes line-item funding for the state’s broadband bonds.
April 16 -
Final price approval for a $1 billion airport terminal plan is being pushed off as more gates are added to the project.
April 13 -
New Jersey lawmakers are seeking once again to expand the state’s use of public-private partnerships as a way to jump-start infrastructure improvements.
April 13 -
About $25 million will come from bonds secured by the city’s share of county hotel tax revenue and tax increment financing.
April 12 -
The state's ratings are at risk, Fitch Ratings says, because the budget doesn't include debt service on bonds for the high-speed Internet project.
April 12 -
The revenue procedure implements a proposal in President Trump's infrastructure plan that will help facilitate public-private partnership arrangements.
April 12 -
The controversial bailout for Hartford is sending fiscal shock waves through the legislature and contributed to $100 million for the XL Center being cut from the governor's proposed capital improvement budget.
April 12 -
Alaska's credit quality and the future of some existing and proposed bonding programs hang in the balance as lawmakers wind down the clock in Juneau.
April 12 -
New Jersey needs new tax increases to combat an “unsustainable” structural deficit, the state’s top fiscal officer told legislative leaders Tuesday.
April 11 -
The Big Apple should be prepared to weather a big downturn, so the City Council is urging the mayor to put additional reserves into his budget proposal.
April 10 -
Illinois lawmakers returned to work this week with less than two months to settle on a budget.
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