Texas

Student housing projects financed through public-private partnerships face a far more lethal blow if the coronavirus pandemic prevents college campuses from opening this fall.

The city's utility enterprise received rating boosts ahead of a $318 million revenue bond deal that will price after this week's general obligation deal.

Most consolidated rent-a-car facility debt is structured with solid debt service reserves, a cushion for investors after the coronavirus halted travel.

The former Loop Capital executive has nearly two decades of experience in underwriting and institutional sales.

Renewable energy — already supplanting coal on the basis of economics — could become the major power source 15 years earlier than expected, researchers said.

With data from the two worst months of the year so far, state and local analysts are beginning to size up expected revenue losses.

The cities enter a primary municipal bond market prepared to absorb $9 billion of deals this week.

The pandemic's effect on public transportation has revived debate about the role of bicycles, ferries, in-city commuter rail and other alternative modes.

Sales tax collections fell 13.2% compared to the same month last year, the steepest decline since January 2010

Cities and counties of fewer than 500,000 are seeing a fraction of the reimbursements for coronavirus spending that their larger counterparts received.

The system is managing the pandemic's impact on its campuses and hospitals, as well as a drop in the price of oil, which supports it financially. Neither situation is expected to shake its rating strength.

With its amusement parks and stadiums shut down the city, which is prepping a bond refunding, is bracing for an $18 million hit to tax revenues.

The Texas Transportation Commission also signaled plans to move full-speed-ahead with a $3.5 billion highway project in Austin.

Texas suffered its worst sales tax plunge in 10 years as the pandemic began to grip the state's economy.

Like their traditional peers, charter schools in the Southwest see the writing on the wall when it comes to future funding in a coronavirus-driven recession.

S&P Global Ratings analysts say bookings that are two to three years out are already being canceled.

After the unprecedented collapse an oil futures contract into negative territory, the leading oil producing states face budget uncertainty.

Sales taxes are a pillar of the Texas state budget, and the usually stable revenue source has taken a hit from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bexar County Commissioner Justin Rodriguez will join Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson on Locke Lord's Texas public finance team.

With its hotel and car rental tax support in tatters, the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority also received a negative outlook from Moody's.