Southwest

Standard & Poor's credit analysts say they will closely watch how Oklahoma resolves its $900.8 million shortfall in a depressed energy market that has drained the state's coffers.

With all new leadership, the city of Houston will weigh into the bond market with $800 million of revenue and refunding bonds for its combined utility system.

Low oil prices showed a broad impact on the Texas economy in January as sales tax revenue fell 4% below the same month last year.

As Kansas revenues fell $6.8 million below projections for January, lawmakers began looking for ways to close the expanding budget gap.

A $327 million University of Kansas bond sale that used a Wisconsin conduit issuer drew criticism from lawmakers seeking to ban future out-of-state deals.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a Bond Buyer conference that policies developed during his record 14 years in office will shield the state from serious damage from falling oil prices.

Texas state and local governments have learned how to manage the boom-bust cycles of the oil industry and are fairly well positioned for lengthy downturn, experts told the The Bond Buyer’s Texas Public Finance Conference.

Relieving the congestion on urban highways in Texas will be a continual process that requires additional funding sources, planners say.

The nation's leading bond counsel firm will open its Houston office with five attorneys from two prominent firms in the Bayou City.

Two Dallas-area school districts – one serving some of the wealthiest students in the nation, the other some of the poorest – are going to the bond market.