Paul Burton is the Northeast Regional Editor for The Bond Buyer. His major coverage has included New York City and MTA finances; the Harrisburg, Pa., debt crisis; the 38 Studios bond financing fiasco in Rhode Island; and unfunded pension liability. Paul hosts podcasts and videos and has moderated at Bond Buyer conferences. Previously, Paul was senior editor and copy chief at M&A-oriented financial media company The Deal LLC. His award-winning career has spanned financial, sports and political journalism. A Boston native, Paul is the author of the book “Tales from the Newsrooms.” He is a frequent public speaker and has appeared as an expert on municipal debt on radio and television shows, including former CBS News White House correspondent Sharyl Attkisson’s public-affairs program, “Full Measure.”
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Chief of Administration and Finance, Collector-Treasurer, City of Boston
By Paul BurtonSeptember 23 -
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The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority will price the housing mortgage finance program bonds through negotiation.
By Paul BurtonSeptember 23 -
States and cities have begun to factor climate risk into budgetary and other planning.
By Paul BurtonSeptember 20 -
Jasiel Correia II, accused separately of shaking down marijuana vendors and defrauding investors, still finished a distant second in the Fall River race.
By Paul BurtonSeptember 18 -
Questions from transit observers and advocates followed the announcement by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of its $51.5 billion capital program.
By Paul BurtonSeptember 17 -
Xay Khamsyvoravong, chairman of the Providence Water Supply Board, explains how this trending accounting tool could help offset Rhode Island’s local pension liabilities. Paul Burton hosts.
By Paul BurtonSeptember 17 -
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's budget gap report comes amid deliberations on the MTA's five-year capital plan that raise accusations of secrecy.
By Paul BurtonSeptember 16 -
Carolyn Pokorny, who helped prosecute "El Chapo" Guzman and other drug lords, is taking on waste and fraud as the New York transit agency's inspector general.
By Paul BurtonSeptember 12 -
Veronique "Ronnie" Hakim, a top official at New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is resigning as managing director by the end of February.
By Paul BurtonSeptember 12