Southwest

Arkansas revenues remained above the forecast for March as state legislators prepared to open a special session dealing with Medicaid expansion.

A federal judge approved a $20 billion settlement with BP to resolve litigation brought by five Gulf coast states over the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Texas sales tax revenues grew 2.1% in March after five months of declines, Comptroller Glenn Hegar reported.

The first inventory of Texas toll roads is a starting point for future discussions about how to reduce tolling, said an anti-toll Texas lawmaker.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signature on recently passed legislation will clear a path for the University of Colorado’s $168 million issue of new money and refunding bonds.

After months of seeing revenues fall well below projections, Kansas came within $1.7 million of its target for March, officials reported.

Citing strong enrollment growth and improving financial trends, Standard & Poor’s upgraded Texas Tech University System to AA-plus.

With a deadline bearing on them, Kansas legislators approved a court-mandated revision of the school funding formula designed to keep schools open in the next fiscal year beginning July 1.

Some investors holding millions of dollars of bonds in default in the Florida panhandle are upset by what they see as inaction by trustee Bank of Oklahoma Financial and a fired employee with links to accused fraudster Christopher Brogdon.

Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas, will issue $536 million of taxable and $382 million of tax-exempt bonds.