Oklahoma Museums Plan Avoids State Bonds
Oklahoma may fund work on two state museums with $80 million of tax revenue rather than bonds.
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Rising concern about the availability of future water supplies and the need for new infrastructure will take center stage at The Bond Buyer's Financing Municipal Utilities Conference.  more »
Texas voters turned against some major bond proposals in elections held Saturday.  more »
University of Texas regents approved $334.5 million of university revenue bonds to fund a medical school in Austin.  more »
Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a pension reform bill because it did not lower the state retirement system's unfunded liabilities.  more »
Oklahoma's monthly gross revenues reached a record monthly high of $1.27 billion in April.  more »
Topeka will build up fund balances in effort to restore GO credit downgrade.  more »
Arizona county officials have asked the state to end diversions and charges that have cost local governments $137.6 million since fiscal 2009.  more »
Kansas House committee approved $202 million of bonds for the state's share of a bio-defense laboratory in Manhattan, Kan.  more »
Texas voters will consider more than $2.5 billion of bond issues in sixty school districts across the state Saturday.  more »
The first state sales tax on recreational marijuana cleared the Colorado General Assembly, with the first $40 million wholesale tax revenue directed to a bond program for school construction.  more »
With new competition fast approaching, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is returning to the debt market to price $367 million of revenue bonds for its terminal renewal and improvement program.  more »
A Travis County civil court judge has denied a request for a restraining order seeking a halt to voting on $892 million of general obligation bonds sought by Austin ISD.  more »
A supplemental budget for fiscal 2014 submitted last week by Gov. Sam Brownback includes a request for $202 million of state bonds for a bio-defense laboratory.  more »
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Before the financial crisis of 2008-09, it would have been significant news if yields on municipal bonds had exceeded those on Treasury securities at any maturity, and that occurrence likely would have attracted a variety of investors seeking to take advantage of the relative-value opportunity.

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