Arkansas

School vouchers in Arizona and bond measures in Colorado are among the fiscal ballot measures Southwest voters will decide Tuesday.

The report found that 61% of the 341 finance officers who participated in the survey anticipate negative future impacts on their city's financial health from the termination of advance refundings, while 35% said they already have seen negative impacts.

Bond volume in the region fell sharply in the first half of 2018, though one expert saw the 16% drop as better than anticipated.

Arkansas sees an economic payoff for its $125 million of general obligation bonds that helped it land a $1.1 billion steel mill on the banks of the Mississippi River.

The Walton Family Foundation provided seed funds to create two “innovative” financing vehicles for charter school facilities.

Municipal bond volume across the eight-state Southwest region in 2017 fell 9% below its 2016 record.

Phillips County will get a new jail and law enforcement facility.

A big drop-off in Texas and a decline in refundings took a bite out of the municipal bond business in the Southwest.

Financial advisers for the city of Pine Bluff, Ark., on Monday re-sold bonds originally issued in 2011 in a move expected to save nearly $1 million over the life of the city's bond payments.

Pine Bluff, Ark., officials on Friday listened to a presentation to restructure bonds to fund construction of an aquatic center and downtown street improvements.

Arkansas House defeats plan to raise taxes by $200 million per year to support road bonds.

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.

Extending a temporary sales tax to keep Arkansas roads in good shape preferred by voters in new statewide funding study.

Energy-producing states affected by two years of deterioration in natural resource prices can expect continued global headwinds to pressure revenues, according to Fitch Ratings.

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.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will propose a highway funding plan to the 2017 General Assembly that includes a gas tax hike.

The University of Arkansas will join the college football stadium arms race with a $115 million bond issue for the Razorbacks’ home field.

Arkansas will study whether tolled lanes are the best way to finance a 14-mile segment of a new interstate highway.

Issuers in the Southwest sold $42.85 billion of bonds in the first half of 2016, only 0.6% behind the record pace of the same period last year, according to Thomson Reuters data.

After ending the 2016 fiscal year with a surplus, Arkansas began the new fiscal year with revenues running 1.7% below projections, officials said.