Southwest

The Arizona attorney general's office is looking into fund transfers and open meetings issues regarding the recent sale of the Phoenix Coyotes National Hockey League team.

Dallas suburb of Frisco will provide $115 million of public financing for a Dallas Cowboys training complex and domed football stadium the school district will use.

The Dallas suburb of Frisco plans to issue sales tax bonds to fund a new practice facility and headquarters for the Dallas Cowboys football team that will also be a domed stadium for high school sports.

Texas is preparing to issue $7.2 billion of tax and revenue anticipation notes to cover cash flows to school districts for the new fiscal year beginning Sept. 1.

Contrasting with a 10% national decline in municipal bond volume for the first half of 2013, the southwest region recorded a 3% lift to $29.7 billion.

Austin, Texas voters will be decide in November if they will authorize $65 million of bonds for affordable housing after rejecting a similar $78.3 million proposal in 2012.

Dallas County's Parkland Hospital will not lose its Medicare and Medicaid funding after a second evaluation found the charity hospital in compliance with federal standards.

A $220 million plan to preserve the abandoned Houston Astrodome will go to voters if Harris County Commissioners approve the proposal on Tuesday.

A petition drive to raise about $1 billion per year for education through higher income taxes arrived at the Colorado Secretary of State's office Monday with nearly twice the number of required signatures.

A lawsuit by a spurned developer of a proposed $165 million entertainment center adjoining Irving, Texas', new convention center has been settled, clearing the way for a plan to resurrect the project.