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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells road planners to look at projects that eliminate bottlenecks and reduce traffic congestion.

Major bond-financed investments have been paying off for some of Northern California’s smaller airports, which have seen their multi-billion dollar projects followed by more airline and passenger business.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is pushing to use the Alaska Permanent Fund, traditionally used for payouts to Alaska citizens, to help close the state's budget gap.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that brings back redevelopment in a limited way, notably by creating new community revitalization investment authorities that can issue tax-increment debt.

The authors of a California pension initiative effort are abandoning their existing measure and writing a new one.

Standard & Poor's affirmed its AA-minus rating for San Francisco Unified School District.

Of the 18 states with increasing poverty rates, all but three experienced increases in median household income.

The three states that rely on the Colorado River for their water supplies will not face federal rationing in 2016, a fact that is credit positive for bond issuers in the region, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The $9 billion California school bond proposed by a coalition of educational lobbyists and the building industry has qualified for the Nov. 8, 2016 ballot.

Washington State will sell more than $900 million of bonds next week, including a negotiated retail sale of its first-ever green bonds followed by a competitive sale Sept. 30.