Richard Williamson

A 15-cent increase in Kansas fuel taxes would support $264 million per year in highway projects, boosting economic activity by nearly $600 million, according to a road-building industry report.

Texas lawmakers need to face four areas where long term liabilities are growing, including the funding level of its public pensions, said state Comptroller Glenn Hegar.

Moody’s Investors Service retained a negative outlook on Catholic Health Initiatives $5.7 billion of rated debt after lowering the healthcare giant to Baa1 from A3. The downgrade comes less than a month after a similar move by S&P Global Ratings.

A bill requiring a vote on $1 billion of pension bonds is a “poison pill” that could derail Houston’s efforts to restructure its debt to city employees, Mayor Sylvester Turner said.

Beset by a slumbering energy economy, Oklahoma City is counting on its top bond ratings to attract investors to $90 million of general obligation paper it is selling competitively.

The cost of health care in Texas is rising faster than both the general inflation rate and the growth of the state's population, but state leaders have provided little guidance on how to address major changes that may be coming this year.

Texas Lawmakers would reduce voter-approved funding for the Texas Department of Transportation by $2.3 billion under a proposed resolution by the state House’s chief budget writer.

With doubts over the future of tolling in El Paso, the Texas city's designated toll authority will issue $35 million of revenue bonds backed by vehicle registration fees this month.

The Texas Department of Transportation will dedicate an additional $2.5 billion for 19 new projects aimed at relieving congestion in the major metro areas if the supervisory Texas Transportation Commission approves.

The San Antonio Water System is facing its first audit by the Internal Revenue Service in years, as the IRS examines the tax-exemption on $83 million of bonds.

Parker Schenken, a veteran public finance attorney from Nebraska, will join the public finance team at Sherman & Howard in Denver, the firm said.

For the second month in a row, Oklahoma reported positive revenue collections in February over the same month last year, state Treasurer Ken Miller said.

Monthly sales tax revenue registered the second-largest gain of the fiscal year in February, rising 4.4% above the same month last year to $2.4 billion.

Oklahoma expects strong demand for $70 million of capitol repair bonds despite an S&P downgrade and continuing struggles to cover a nearly $900 million revenue shortfall.

President Donald Trump’s plan to rely on private prisons to house federal inmates and immigration detainees is reviving interest in the high-yield bonds that financed the lockups.

Amid a two-year budget shortfall of nearly $800 million, Kansas lawmakers must increase funding for public schools, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Nonprofit health giant Catholic Health Initiatives fell one notch to BBB-plus on S&P Global Ratings' scale Thursday due to a weakened financial profile, analysts said.

Facing continuing revenue shortages, Oklahoma was downgraded to to AA from AA-plus by S&P Global Ratings.

Despite the U.S. Attorney General’s reversal of plans to end use of private, for-profit prisons, the bonds used to finance the facilities still bear the risk of abrupt policy changes, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of a bill that would have increased income taxes leaves the state still struggling to balance its budget, according to Moody’s Investors Service.