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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Oklahoma hopes to close on a federal loan this summer for rural highway construction and improvements that would tap into $200 million of borrowing authorized by a 2021 state law.
April 19 -
A taxable bond issue will raise $3.4 billion for extraordinary costs incurred by natural gas utilities during deadly Winter Storm Uri that hit Texas in 2021.
April 18 -
Denver will head to the municipal market next week with its biggest new money general obligation bond sale ever at $366.4 million.
April 13 -
After dropping dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, energy severance tax revenue is soaring along with oil and gas prices.
April 11 -
The combined Utah-based Intermountain and Colorado-based SCL will operate 33 hospitals and 385 clinics in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Kansas.
April 7 -
Despite speakers' objections over the cost of the project or the need for more restorative justice measures instead of incarceration, all three commissioners voted in favor of the referendum.
April 5 -
Firms remain uncertain about how state laws that apply litmus tests for banks and others seeking contracts with governmental entities impact them.
April 4 -
Underwriters sidelined by the state's new litmus test on firearms policies have bought many past Texas TRANs, but the state won't need to issue any this year.
March 31 -
A new law in empowers Utah to keep an eye on debt issuance by newer development authorities and a transit agency, as well as approve P3s involving state funds.
March 29 -
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport will bring its first new money issue since 2017 to the municipal bond market next week, buoyed by an rating upgrade.
March 28 -
Bondholders will vote on a Chapter 9 bankruptcy exit plan that would pay full principal and interest on Atoka County Medical Center bonds.
March 23 -
In an election year marked by inflation, lawmakers in about 20 states are considering bills to permanently or temporarily ease the sales tax burden.
March 21 -
Texas says it will crack down on financial companies it perceives to be mistreating the fossil fuel industry as it implements a 2021.
March 17 -
Lawmakers in other red states are trying to follow Texas' footsteps with bills to subject banks to a litmus test over their treatment of the firearm industry.
March 14 -
The firm's special district group is up to 30 public finance professionals with the addition of seven members since January.
March 11 -
Terry Thornton, a senior vice president in Goldman Sachs’s Houston investment banking office, died suddenly on Feb. 27 at the age of 51.
March 9 -
Oklahoma is not alone in struggling to fund repairs for aging dams, a $20 billion problem nationwide according to a 2019 study.
March 7 -
The Turnpike Authority is gearing up bond financing for a $5 billion capital plan, and will pick a team of underwriters and others later this year.
March 3 -
A judge has set a March 23 hearing on the Atoka County Healthcare Authority’s disclosure statement for its plan to end a five-year-long bankruptcy.
March 2 -
Soaring inflation could pressure the ratings of utilities if they bring rate hikes that spark customer and political opposition, S&P Global Ratings said.
February 25
