Richard Williamson

Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health care providers, is in danger of a downgrade from S&P Global Ratings after analysts placed its A-minus rating on its negative watch list.

A request for state Supreme Court validation on $420 million of toll revenue bonds has sidelined the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority deal as rates rose in post-election investor uncertainty.

Texas lawmakers created a local pension system that was "designed to fail," but Dallas is bearing the consequences of billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, said Mayor Mike Rawlings.

Concerned about the muni market’s ability to absorb a flood of tax-exempt AMT bonds from U.S. airports, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport may turn to taxable debt.

The law firm Greenberg Traurig has added former Houston Controller Ronald Green to its Houston practice as a shareholder specializing in public finance and government affairs.

The Colorado Department of Transportation will study a method of charging motorists by the mile to replace the state’s fuel tax. The four-month study begins in December.

Denver International Airport officials hope to land about $44 million of savings on a $250 million refunding issue this week. In its 21st year, DIA is rapidly paying down the debt used to build the nation's sixth busiest airport.

Two weeks after New Mexico lost its triple-A rating from Moody's Investors Service, New Mexico took a one notch downgrade from S&P Global Ratings to AA with the outlook remaining negative.

A $500 million bond issue for a new Major League Baseball stadium in Arlington, Texas, a $720 million transportation issue in Austin and a record amount of school bonds in Colorado were among the winners in Tuesday’s elections in the Southwest.

For the first time in nearly two years, Oklahoma’s tax collections from the production of oil and natural gas in October surpassed those from the same month the previous year.

As voters in other Texas school districts consider bond issues to build new classrooms, those in the Houston Independent School District will decide how to hand over $162 million of tax revenue to the state.

Colorado voters Tuesday will consider a measure to create the nation's first universal health care system.

A recent trend of seeing Texas revenues fall short of projections was reversed by a slight increase in October, according to state Comptroller Glenn Hegar.

Kansas collected $12.7 million less revenue than anticipated in October, continuing a trend that has forced the state to reduce spending.

Arkansas voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to lift a state constitutional limit on general obligation bonds for large development projects. They will also decide whether to legalize medical marijuana use.

A proposal to raise the Oklahoma sales tax by one cent would give teachers a raise if voters approve. The Sooner State ranks 49th among states in teacher pay, according to recent studies.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court’s approval of changes in the state’s public pension plan is a positive credit factor for the state, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The Sooner State still faces a possible downgrade of its Aa2 rating.

A special session of the New Mexico Legislature that cut nearly $371 million of spending to keep pace with falling revenues created a negative credit factor for public education, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Texas voters are deciding $4.76 billion of local bond proposals in the Nov. 8 election.

An alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives with Dignity Health to create one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health-care providers would be a positive credit factor for the two organizations, according to Moody’s Investors Service.