Richard Williamson

Combined proposals from Texas issuers in November come to about $6.6 billion, with Austin leading the way with about $1 billion.

The municipal market should benefit from the Securities and Exchange Commission's prosecution of Kansas for inadequate disclosure of faltering pension obligations, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Nearly 20 years after the airport opened, Denver International Airport is restructuring variable-rate debt as part of a deal that adds a decade to the lease of its major carrier United Airlines by reducing carrier operating costs.

The Texas system for financing public schools remains in violation of the state constitution even after lawmakers restored some of the $5.4 billion cut in the 2011 session, state district court judge John Dietz ruled Thursday.

Voters in the Texarkana, Texas, Independent School District will decide whether to issue $30 million of bonds to build a new school.

A growing number of school districts are showing signs of fiscal stress, acoording to a report from the Colorado State Audtor.

Texas earned record low interest rates on its $5.4 billion sale of tax and revenue anticipation notes on Aug. 26, Comptroller Susan Combs said.

Utah has postponed a $235 million advance refunding that had been expected to price competitively Sept. 3.

After winning strong support from voters in its last bond election, Houston Independent School District will issue $350 million of variable-rate debt that carries triple-A ratings on two levels.

Attorneys for Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that an investigation of how his donors won contracts from a state cancer research fund did not motivate him to veto funding for the investigators.

Two school districts in the Houston area will account for more than $1 billion of bonds on the November ballot after their boards approved calling for voter support of the measures.

A state fee on so-called "small tobacco" companies that were not part of a 1998 settlement with states' attorneys general is unconstitutional, a Texas appeals court ruled.

A $235 million advance refunding of Utah general obligation bonds could be sidelined by falling Treasury rates, according to state Treasurer Richard K. Ellis.

Phoenix has formed a citizens committee to plan for expansion of the city's light-rail after Mayor Greg Stanton said he wanted to triple the length of the existing system over three decades.

Plans for a $90 million hotel adjoining the Irving Convention Center have fallen apart after the private developer failed to find financing.

Running four months ahead of schedule on the light-rail connection to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport that opened Monday, Dallas Area Rapid Transit leaders are taking no time to catch their breath after five years of intensive bond-financed development.

The felony indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry covers actions he took against the Travis County District Attorney's office while its investigators looked into grants to his campaign contributors from a $3 billion cancer research bond fund.

Texas will issue $5.4 billion of tax and revenue anticipation notes to smooth cash flows to school districts in the 2015 fiscal year

The long-running power struggle at the University of Texas that led to a legislative censure of UT Regent Wallace Hall is credit negative for the UT System, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The largest teachers' union in Kansas is seeking to overturn provisions in the state appropriations law that strips tenured teachers of their rights to appeal firings.