Richard Williamson

Dallas' Parkland Hospital Board has approved $42 million of bonds for a new $1.3 billion hospital financed mostly by Build America Bonds issued in 2009.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Perry's proposal to issue 100-year bonds for major infrastructure could get a hearing in a special legislative session now open to transportation issues.

Local opposition to Gov. Rick Perry's refusal to expand Medicaid surfaces, as the state's 254 counties cope with the nation's highest rate of uninsured residents.

San Antonio is preparing to issue up to $400 million of junior-lien revenue bonds for its electric utility CPS Energy as part of a nearly $2.7 billion capital construction plan over the next five years.

Key members of the Texas Legislature are developing plans to salvage $2 billion of college and university construction bonds in a special session whose only agenda involves redistricting.

The Texas Panhandle town of Fritch has seen its Standard & Poor's rating fall to D from BBB-minus after defaulting on $3.8 million of water and sewer debt.

Moody's Investors Service has left its junk-bond ratings in place on the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority as the stadium builder's bond insurer appeals a lawsuit over coverage of more than $1 billion of debt.

After reaching major milestones in wind power, Texas is seeing signs that a boom in cheap natural gas could inhibit the growth of renewable energy.

After clearing up issues around a phony audit, the New Mexico Finance Authority returned to the bond market Wednesday with $43 million of excise tax bonds for local government projects.

The Harris County-Houston Sports Authority is fending off a legislative effort by the company that insures nearly $1 billion of its stadium bonds to restrict use of revenues to debt service.

Texas legislators have reached a deal on a $94 billion spending plan over the next two years but need to work out details on a $2 billion water bond program and $400 million of transportation funding.

Public utilities must awaken ratepayers to the reality that, while energy sources are expanding, water is growing increasingly precious, experts told the Bond Buyer symposium on public utility finance.

Rising concern about the availability of future water supplies and the need for new infrastructure will take center stage at The Bond Buyer's Financing Municipal Utilities Conference.

Texas voters turned against some major bond proposals in elections held Saturday.

Texas voters will consider more than $2.5 billion of bond issues in sixty school districts across the state Saturday.

The first state sales tax on recreational marijuana cleared the Colorado General Assembly, with the first $40 million wholesale tax revenue directed to a bond program for school construction.

With new competition fast approaching, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is returning to the debt market to price $367 million of revenue bonds for its terminal renewal and improvement program.

The Texas Senate is considering whether taxpayers should bail out investors in a failed private prison that has remained vacant since it was completed in 2010.

Colorado's $20.5 billion budget signed into law this week by Gov. John Hickenlooper provides $188 million for capital construction that is expected to be funded by bonds.

A bill that would have provided $2 billion of bonds from the Texas rainy day fund for water projects appeared dead in the state House after a procedural move by opponents.