Jim Watts

DALLAS – Santa Fe, N.M., will power a community center using solar energy panels financed with proceeds from $17.8 million of general obligation bonds approved by voters Tuesday.

DALLAS — Voters in North Richland Hills, Texas, will decide May 12 on $48 million of general obligation bonds to build a new municipal complex in the Fort Worth suburb.

Jefferson County is eligible for bankruptcy despites its lack of bond debt under a ruling issued late Sunday by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett.

Trustees of the New Caney Independent School District in Texas have set a May 12 election for a $97.5 million general obligation bond proposal.

Oklahoma County commissioners last week approved initial steps last week to develop a new 2,800-bed jail that would replace the county’s 13-story lockup in downtown Oklahoma City.

A plan to rebate $2.25 million of city hotel tax revenue to developers of a new hotel in downtown Wichita was rejected last week by 61% of voters.

State revenues in Kansas topped $261 million in February, the Department of Revenue said last week.

Arkansas’ net available state revenues in the first eight months of fiscal 2012 came to a total of $3 billion, an increase of $54.2 million from the same period of fiscal 2011 and $20.2 million more than expected.

The Arkansas General Assembly adopted the state’s $4.73 billion general budget for fiscal 2013 on Friday, wrapping up the biannual fiscal session in 19 days instead of the allowed 45.

DALLAS — A panel of 22 Texas lawmakers has been formed to conduct a comprehensive review of the state's school finance system in the wake of five recent lawsuits challenging how Texas funds local school districts.

DALLAS — Louisiana will take a bite out of its $1.8 billion capital outlay backlog with Thursday's competitive sale of $400 million of new-money general obligation bonds.

The number of Louisiana state employees has fallen by more than 6,400 workers in the first two years of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration.

The Oklahoma Board of Equalization last week approved a new state revenue estimate for fiscal 2013 that totals $6.6 billion, which represents an increase of $47 million from the December estimate and is $168 million higher than in fiscal 2012.

A downtown development group is asking voters in Wichita, Kan., to approve a proposed rebate of city hotel taxes to a downtown hotel in today’s election.

The Little Rock, Ark., Board of Directors approved a plan last week that would allocate revenues from a sales tax increase toward capital projects in the city.

Deer Valley Unified School District No. 97 has asked the state of Arizona for a $7 million advance to cover a cash shortfall caused by a delay in anticipated state aid.

Attorneys representing a group of Texas parents filed the fifth in a series of lawsuits Friday seeking to have the state's public education system declared unconstitutional.

DALLAS — A nonprofit public charter school will sell revenue bonds in April for new facilities through a conduit issuer approved Wednesday by the Dallas City Council.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will ask the Legislature to authorize $325 million of bonds to resurface and maintain almost 1,000 miles of state rural roads not eligible for federal matching grants.

DALLAS — An Austin citizens bond development committee must cut by more than half a list of potential projects to be financed by a general obligation bond package going to voters in November.