Karen is a senior reporter covering the Southwest. She has covered the municipal bond market for more than 30 years at The Bond Buyer and Reuters. Prior to that she wrote about futures and options markets for magazines and was an award-winning reporter for a suburban Chicago newspaper chain.
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State lawmakers will be back in session Aug. 26 in an effort to head off ballot initiatives that worry the state's public finance industry.
August 16 -
Eduardo Ramos had faced insurance fraud charges that were unrelated to his work at the school district.
August 16 -
Salt Lake City School District is seeking $730 million of bonds and Salt Lake County is asking for $507 million of bonds at the Nov. 5 general election.
August 15 -
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport received a S&P rating upgrade and a positive rating outlook from Moody's ahead of a $750 million bond sale next week.
August 13 -
Municipal bond market participants say a proposed constitutional amendment targeting property tax revenue would increase borrowing costs and lead to litigation.
August 13 -
Texas' largest school district, which was taken over by the state last year, is seeking voter approval for bonds for the first time since 2012.
August 9 -
The Greater Arizona Development Authority, which has been inactive for nearly a decade, will once again offer lower cost financing for rural communities and tribal governments.
August 8 -
The July 31 arrest of Eduardo Ramos, who submitted his resignation July 23, was not related to his job, according to the school system.
August 6 -
The states and others are pushing back against studies showing adverse financial effects from laws that punish banks for their fossil fuel and firearm policies.
August 6 -
The mayor and controller debated the causes for the rating outlook revision to negative from stable ahead of a July city bond sale.
July 31 -
Concerns have been raised about audits related to nearly $2.9 billion of ratepayer-backed bonds sold for Oklahoma utilities in 2022.
July 30 -
Continued economic growth and budgetary discipline could lead to an upgrade of the state's AA rating over the next two years, S&P said.
July 26 -
The Texas Water Development Board expects to sell up to $1.8 billion of tax-exempt and taxable bonds in September.
July 23 -
In Texas, the Austin City Council set a climate bond election for no later than November 2026, while an Arizona water authority is dealing with a funding drought.
July 23 -
The state attorney general's office said it will appeal the ruling prohibiting enforcement of 2022's Energy Discrimination Elimination Act.
July 19 -
Overall state general fund revenue is on track with an October estimate, while the projection for the fiscal 2024-2025 yearend balance faces changes.
July 18 -
The city had set an Aug. 27 election on a proposition to create tax increment financing districts to help finance an arena project.
July 17 -
The $238.8 million of voter-approved debt will end a 12-year drought in new money general obligation issuance by the nation's fifth largest city.
July 16 -
The Phoenix-based school's debt was rated a notch above junk — to BBB-minus by Fitch Ratings ahead of a refinancing of bonds from a 2021 issue.
July 11 -
A revenue bond issue for Galveston Wharves will price Tuesday after Hurricane Beryl interrupted port operations earlier this week.
July 10
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