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Port of Houston Deputy executive director Roger Guenther moves into the top job after Leonard Waterworth ends his two-year tenure.

Standard & Poor's outlook shifts to stable from negative on a Vail Valley golf community whose private club was tied up in bankruptcy and litigation.

The federal Department of Transportation signs off on an $840 million loan to a seven-county toll road system around Houston.

The San Antonio Water System will reject controversial proposals from three private developers to pipe water to the city from as far away as 150 miles and go with desalination.

The hot Texas economy is spurring operators of the state's airports and seaports to provide new infrastructure to accommodate the growing state.

Cook Children's Hospital, the dominant provider of children's healthcare in Fort Worth, Texas, is planning its second expansion in five years with $175 million of bonds.

Texas' economy will continue to grow briskly in 2014 as state government keeps a tight lid on spending, according to experts at The Bond Buyer's Texas Public Finance Conference.

Citigroup won the bid on $50 million of Tulsa, Okla., general obligation bonds Jan. 30 with a true interest cost of 3.2008%.

A bond panel's wish list for Arlington Independent School District in Texas would cost $663 million.

The operator of Colorado's E-470 toll road will remarket $72.6 million of variable-rate revenue bonds.