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More than four decades after Southwest Airlines landed at Love Field, the Dallas airport is finally unshackled from the Wright Amendment that minimized its rivalry with Dallas-Fort Worth International.

More than four decades after Southwest Airlines landed at Love Field, the Dallas airport is finally unshackled from the Wright Amendment that minimized its rivalry with Dallas-Fort Worth International.

Texas sales tax revenue rose 7.9% in September to $2.17 billion, marking the 54th straight month of increases, but concerns about the oil and gas industry are beginning to emerge.

Conroe Independent School District in the northern suburbs of Houston sees strong demand for $150 million of bonds that include refunding and new money.

With revenues for the past year already running at record levels, Oklahoma revenues surged 8% in September.

Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, one of the largest and fastest-growing in Texas, was upgraded by Moody's Investors Service as it headed to market with $463 million of new money and refunding bonds.

Colorado's Public Finance Associates will become part of Minnesota-based Ehlers Companies in the wake of new regulations that could prove challenging for smaller firms.

While few high school students are aware of how their schools were financed, a select group at Sidney Lanier High School in San Antonio took up an invitation to watch a bond pricing first-hand.

The high-plains city of Lubbock, Texas, won't ask voters to approve $134 million of bonds, as a majority of the city council agreed that the timing was wrong.

Chicago-based William Blair & Co. is making a big push into the Texas market, snaring a five-member banking team from Robert W. Baird & Co. led by Ajay Thomas who will take over the firm's public finance banking group and help guide a national expansion.