Texas

DALLAS — A decade after Austin-Bergstrom International Airport opened for business, it is keeping the light on for a super low-fare carrier that might want to use its no-frills South Terminal.

DALLAS — Voters across the Southwest approved nearly $4 billion of bond proposals in lightly attended off-year elections Tuesday.

DALLAS — Texas voters today will decide whether to issue $2 billion of bonds for veterans housing, partner with the Veterans Administration on a South Texas hospital, and redirect a $450 million education fund toward the creation of more top-tier universities.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Thursday approved a proposal by the University of North Texas System for a 28,000-seat football stadium that will be financed in part with $38 million of student fee revenue bonds.

The Texas Department of Transportation is proposing $1.1 billion for the widening of heavily congested sections of Interstate 35 between Austin and Dallas using more than half of the so-called Proposition 12 bonds authorized by lawmakers.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is auditing $61.3 million of auction-rate securities issued in 2005 by the Coastal Bend Health Facilities Development Corp. of Corpus Christi, Tex.

DALLAS — If Texas voters approve Proposition 4 next week, the state would invest $450 million toward adding seven Tier 1 universities in hopes of closing an educational gap with other large states.

DALLAS — A fast-growing school district in the northern suburbs of Dallas is taking its case for general obligation bonds to voters on Nov. 3 for the third time in a year.

DALLAS — Houston-based St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System is preparing a $385 million revenue bond refunding deal through the Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.

WASHINGTON — Federal lawmakers from Texas are pushing for the Treasury Department to change tax rules that are forcing the state’s school districts to forego, or pay more for, the bond financing of infrastructure projects because they cannot access the Texas Permanent School Fund’s bond guarantee program.

DALLAS — With tolling options closed, the Texas Transportation Commission is considering funding sources for a $2.2 billion expansion of heavily traveled Interstate 35 to six lanes from San Antonio to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

DALLAS — The Travis County Housing Authority in Austin is in the process of revamping its accounting procedures after federal auditors reported that the agency’s books could not be audited and that $2.5 million had been misapplied to non-federal programs.

DALLAS — The Bushland Independent School District is bringing $9.1 million of unlimited-tax school building bonds to market next week on the heels of a three-notch upgrade to A-plus from BBB-plus by Standard & Poor’s.

DALLAS — The first of two refunding deals planned by the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will be the largest bond issue this week in Texas.