Jim Watts

The Glendale, Ariz. city council will consider an arena management agreement Tuesday that could keep the Phoenix Coyotes professional hockey team in the city-owned Jobing.com Arena

Louisiana will use proceeds from $110 million of bonds to build a two-mile segment of an interstate highway project that will link Midwest industries to Gulf ports.

A recent telephone survey of voters in the Judson Independent School District found a majority in the San Antonio school district would support a May 2013 bond request to build two schools.

Texas collected more than $2 billion from state and local sales taxes in October as revenues rose 8.2% from October 2011.

Broken Arrow officials said they may ask for a bond referendum in 2014 after Tulsa County voters earlier this month rejected an extension of a sales tax that would have provided the city with a total of $44 million.

Revisions and corrections to the property tax rolls in Pulaski County reduced total assessed valuations to $28.1 billion from the $30 billion originally reported to the state after a county-wide reappraisal was completed in April.

Gov. Mike Beebe proposed a $4.9 billion general revenue budget for fiscal 2014 in a presentation last week to the Arkansas Legislative Council and the Joint Budget Committee.

Mesa is on track to bring in more than the $131 million of sales tax revenue expected in fiscal 2013, officials said last week in the city’s latest financial report.

The Louisiana State Bond Commission gave final approval Nov. 15 to a negotiated sale of $350 million of highway improvement bonds to be sold in early January.

The New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board must be reformed before rates are raised to support $1 billion of revenue debt needed for system renewal, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Monday.

Ascension Parish, La. voters handily defeated a proposal to increase the local sales tax to support a bond-funded plan to upgrade roads.

Texas lawmakers filed bills Monday for their 2013 session to boost state revenues as the state struggles to cope with a looming Medicaid shortfall and restore school funding.

Oral arguments on a suit seeking to overturn last week’s approval of a tax increase for Travis County, Texas’s hospital district are set for this week before U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel.

Voters in Corpus Christi, Texas favored seven of the eight bond proposals on the ballot last week. Total authorization of the seven successful requests will finance almost $88 million of projects.

Neighboring Midland Independent School District and Ector County Independent School District in west Texas won approval last week for the largest GO bond requests in their histories.

The biggest threat to the public infrastructure in Texas is a lack of sustainable funding, the Texas Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers said in its 2012 report card.

An Arkansas constitutional amendment authorizing STAR bonds in which sales tax revenue bonds would have supported economic development districts failed.

A task force developing a list of projects to be included in Scottsdale, Ariz.'s general obligation 2013 bond request will meet this week to review suggestions proposed by citizens through the city's web site.

Income tax cuts and the demise of a sales tax increase will leave Kansas with a $327 million revenue shortfall in fiscal 2014, the Revenue Estimating Conference said Tuesday.

New Orleans City Council began its review of Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s proposed budget for 2013 with a slate of non-controversial agency requests.