Texas

Two former Texas school finance administrators, Oscar Cardenas and Steve Murray, joined Baird's public finance team.

In a small room at Little Walnut Creek Branch Library in North Austin, about a dozen community members sat face-to-face with the group of Austin residents tasked with an influential role in how hundreds of millions of tax dollars might be spent.

State agencies and universities are expected to generate 26% less bond volume this fiscal year, according to the Texas Bond Review Board.

ExxonMobil is citing California local governments' bond documents as it tries to turn the table on suits the communities filed against the energy giant.

Texas sales tax revenue continued its double-digit growth, signaling the strength of the state's economy.

Municipal utility districts on the Texas coast enter 2018 with a stable outlook, according to S&P.

The city of Houston can move forward with its plan to sell $1 billion in bonds on Friday as part of Mayor Sylvester Turner's landmark pension reform passed by the Texas Legislature earlier this year, a judge ruled.

El Paso will issue an extra $15.5 million in debt to build the second phase of the East Side sports complex, which officials said will be paid back by future property owners in the area without impacting the overall city tax rate.

Houston alerted investors to a last-minute lawsuit questioning the legality of the election process as the city priced $1 billion of voter-approved bonds.

Lubbock's City Council voted Monday to finance a $60 million public safety improvements project starting as soon as this fiscal year.

Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co. hired James Terry to manage the growing demand for public school financing in Texas, the firm said.

The structure the airport used combines the advantages of a bond issue with those of a private bank loan, an official said.

Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health will combine operations under a new name and new Chicago headquarters.

Despite the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Texas's November sales tax revenue soared 11% to a record $2.78 billion.

A year from now, city officials may very well be asking voters to approve a bond package, perhaps to keep fixing the potholes on your street.

Texas state pensions bear the third-highest risk of a downturn-driven "budget shock" behind Alaska and Connecticut, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The special purpose districts that have powered development in the Cinco Ranch area west of Houston repeatedly failed to disclose to bond investors the risk of severe flooding from the adjacent Barker Reservoir, a Houston Chronicle investigation found.

Houston hits the market with more certainty about its pensions but less about the tax-exempt market.

Texas also would get less funding than it says it needs in the White House request, set to be made on Friday.

Ennis Rep. Joe Barton is rallying to prevent the GOP's sweeping tax revamp from costing the city of Arlington millions of dollars on its voter-approved plans to finance the new Texas Rangers ballpark.