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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.

Building Trump’s wall on the Mexico border could raise costs for other projects in the border region by impacting material and labor prices.

The San Antonio Water System has saved $55 million through bond refunding since October, officials for public utility said.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of a bill that could have raised $1 billion over two years withstood an attempted override in the Kansas Senate.

A decision to close the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station is a positive credit factor for its operator and co-owners, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Dallas' convention center hotel debt one notch to Baa1 but left the city's general obligation rating at A1 after a review period. However, the outlook remains negative due to unresolved pension issues.

A new method of appraising big box retail stores known as "Dark Store Theory" could cost local governments billions of dollars in lost property tax value, according to the Texas Comptroller's office.

With a strong, fourth-quarter kick, bond volume in the Southwest set a second consecutive record at $83.4 billion, surpassing the 2015 total by 7.2%, according to data from Thomson Reuters.

The economy of Texas would take a severe hit if the Trump administration erects trade barriers with Mexico, local and state officials told the Texas Public Finance Conference.

In a year that promises dramatic changes, government officials and leaders in municipal finance will consider how to adjust to new policies and a new president at The Bond Buyer’s Texas Public Finance Conference.

In a far-reaching state-of-the-state address, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin called for a $350 million bond program to finance infrastructure, a fuel-tax increase to build roads, raises for teachers and elimination of the state income tax.