Colorado

The $125 million deal from the Colorado Housing Finance Authority carries a third-party social bond opinion from Kestrel Verifiers.

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.

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

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

The airport will sell $925 million in a deal structured to lower short-run debt-service outlays as it manages through the coronavirus-driven air travel decline.

One example of the growth of the industry is the nearly tenfold increase in Colorado’s marijuana tax revenue to $250.7 million in 2018 from $25.3 million in 2014.

Low rates in an economic crisis brought a plethora of Southwest municipal bonds to market, and some see a strong second half coming.

The Longmont City Council is expected to formally decide in August whether to seek voters' November election approval of a ballot question that would authorize the city to sell up to $80 million in water revenue bonds.

State auditors will continue to be represented on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board after Chairman David Vaudt ends his term June 30 although not as the chairman.