Texas

DALLAS — The Dallas Independent School District will take $1.03 billion of bonds to market the week before Thanksgiving in a competitive sale that will exhaust more than $2.7 billion of total debt approved by voters in 2008 and 2002.

DALLAS — The fast-growing Round Rock Independent School District north of Austin is preparing to issue $104 million of debt, including $92 million of Build America Bonds, as Texas school districts face prospects for greater budget austerity.

DALLAS — Fitch Ratings downgraded Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to A-plus from AA-minus as it prepares to issue $301 million for its $2.7 billion terminal renovation program.

DALLAS — Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will issue the first $301 million of revenue bonds this week toward a $2 billion renovation of the original terminals that opened 36 years ago.

DALLAS — San Antonio’s CPS Energy is planning its fourth and largest issue of Build America Bonds on Thursday as it faces an Internal Revenue Service audit of a previous BAB deal.

DALLAS — The Texas economy received a vote of confidence Thursday in a special report from Standard & Poor’s, despite a growing budget shortfall in the coming year.

DALLAS — Former Houston Mayor Bill White, who is challenging Texas Gov. Rick Perry for the state’s top post, said Tuesday that appointees to the Teachers Retirement System of Texas improperly funneled investments toward the incumbent’s political contributors.

DALLAS — The battle lines are being drawn in Austin over the capital city’s request for $90 million of general obligation bonds for transportation as opponents ramp up efforts to defeat the proposition on Nov. 2.

DALLAS — The Lower Colorado River Authority in Central Texas anticipates savings of about 10% when it goes to market with $400 million of refunding revenue bonds Wednesday.

DALLAS — Opponents of a Dallas suburb’s plan to issue $200 million of revenue bonds for an entertainment complex have appealed a judge’s order to post a $10 million bond to continue the case.

Sales tax collections totaled $1.57 billion in the month of September, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs said last week, which represents an increase of almost 7% from September 2009.

DALLAS — A nonprofit corporation responsible for heating and cooling 13 million square feet of space at the Texas ­Medical Center in Houston will issue $52 million of revenue bonds to keep pace with the growing campus.

DALLAS — Southern Methodist University will begin a multi-year capital project to build new on-campus residential facilities with proceeds from this week’s sale of $125 million of general obligation revenue bonds.

DALLAS — After successfully pricing $825 million of revenue bonds Monday to expand its light-rail system, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board turned its attention Tuesday to a $1.26 billion budget requiring job cuts and service reductions.

DALLAS — Dallas County District Judge Craig Smith agreed Monday to a one-week delay in deciding whether the Dallas suburb of Irving can issue up to $200 million of revenue bonds for an entertainment center near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

DALLAS — In a year when Texas school districts are celebrating record-low interest rates and the return of the triple-A bond guarantee from the Permanent School Fund, officials are contemplating voters’ appetite for new debt.

DALLAS — The chief financial officer of Dallas Area Rapid Transit said Monday that he is unconcerned by the effect of a downgrade by one of the major rating agencies on the upcoming sale of $825 million of revenue bonds supported by anemic sales tax income.

DALLAS — Dallas Area Rapid Transit lost its AAA rating from Standard & Poor’s Friday as analysts assigned DART’s upcoming $825 million bond deal a AA-plus.

DALLAS — Dallas Area Rapid Transit will issue $825 million of bonds supported by sales tax and farebox revenue next week under a resolution adopted Tuesday by the DART finance committee.

DALLAS — Harris County, Tex., is bringing $140 million of toll road refunding bonds to a market that appears ready to reward issuers bearing strong credit ratings.