Richard Williamson

For quickly turning a financial crisis into an opportunity and mapping a course for other large airports, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's $2 billion refunding earns The Bond Buyer's Deal of the Year for the Southwest Region.

The LBJ Infrastructure Group, operator of managed lanes on a Dallas highway, will sell $1.2 billion of bonds through a conduit issuer.

Ratings analysts see a darker outlook for higher education in 2021 as the effects of the pandemic continue to erode revenues and enrollment.

Facing resistance from the local investor-owned utility, the Colorado college town ended its bid to form a municipal utility and signed a new franchise deal.

State lawmakers took only three days to approve more than $200 million of relief for businesses and individuals in a special legislative session.

With its convention center closed for most of the year, San Antonio must apply hotel occupancy tax to debt service on Grand Hyatt revenue bonds.

For the seventh time in 2020, monthly sales tax revenues in November were below the same month in 2019.

Ike Papadopoulos brings more than 20 years of investment banking experience, most recently with Ziegler and TD Securities.

The Regional Transportation District will issue $340 million for Denver Transit Partners, the concessionaire of three Denver-area commuter rail lines for RTD.

As gridlock grips the federal government, Colorado is hoping to shield citizens and businesses from worsening pandemic impact.

Local governments are facing calls for tax relief as the pandemic slows the economy and they implement property tax reform legislation.

The state’s economic downturn has yet to subside, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel said.

Among the measures, Arkansas voters voted to make a temporary transportation sales tax permanent and Arizona voters raised income taxes on high earners.

After two failed efforts to bring light rail to one of Texas’ most congested cities, voters approved the Project Connect measure.

With continuing weakness in oil fields, restaurants and stores due to the pandemic, Texas saw sales tax collections fall 3.5% year-over-year.

This is the Lone Star State's only bond election day in 2020 after the May date was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority will sell $333 million of bonds and notes.

"We have no need for cash-flow relief or restructuring," said the treasurer of Dallas Area Rapid Transit, which continues to expand its rail services.

Arizona-based Banner Health adds another hospital to its system as it offers investors $607.6 million of taxable revenue bonds.

Weathering headwinds from the pandemic and energy industry turmoil, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation will price $193 million for highway projects.