Texas

Dallas saw its Moody's Investors Service rating fall one notch to A1 as it grapples with a crisis in its public safety pension fund.

With Dallas trying to stop the run on a rapidly declining pension fund, S&P Global Ratings placed the city’s AA general obligation rating on its watch list for a possible downgrade

With revenues running lower than expected in 2016, the Texas Legislature will keep a tighter grip on spending despite increasing demands for growth-related funding in the session that begins next month.

The Internal Revenue Service notified the Judson Independent School District near San Antonio that the district’s $240.8 million of 2007 bonds were the subject of a routine audit.

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.

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.

A banker who serves on issuer charitable groups and donates to them raises conflict of interest questions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Property developments around DART’s light rail stations are important factors in the strong North Texas economy.

Dallas’ growing pension problems brought two recent downgrades amid a wave of lump-sum withdrawals from the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System by retired officers and firefighters.

Two voter opinion polls differ on the likely outcome of Austin's $720 million mobility bond referendum.

Dallas’ growing pension problems led Fitch Ratings to downgrade the city’s $1.7 billion of general obligation debt to AA from AA-plus.

Texas recorded its lowest September sales tax collections since 2013 as the revenue fell 3.9% below the same month last year, according to state Comptroller Glenn Hegar. It was the fifth straight month of decline.

Three more private detention centers in Texas lost their investment-grade ratings in the wake of a new federal policy aimed at halting use of the for-profit facilities.

DALLAS – The Texas A&M Transportation Institute will look into the feasibility of an eight-mile aerial tramway system in Austin known as the Wire that would move passengers high above the city’s often gridlocked roadways.