Southwest

Texas lawmakers will consider highway funding measures when the second special session of the year reconvenes July 9.

Public hearings will begin this month in Fort Worth, Texas, to get voter input on the city's $293 million GO bond election set for May 2014.

A new law doubling the bonding capacity of Arizona school district faces a Tea Party petition challenge.

The Grand Parkway Transportation Corp. is preparing to price $2.86 billion of toll revenue bonds to extend a planned 184-mile loop around the Houston metro area.

A referendum for $36.8 million of school bonds in Bartlesville, Okla., won't include storm shelters at six elementary schools.

A $920 million capital improvements program going to Tulsa, Okla., voters in November focuses on street repairs.

Austin, Texas, voters will likely vote in November on up to $65 million of general obligation bonds for affordable housing

Arkansas ex-treasurer Martha Shoffner pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges at an arraignment in Little Rock.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has named Peck, Shaffer & Williams attorney Mary L. Groves to the Colorado Municipal Bond Supervision Advisory Board.

Moody's Investors Service lowered its rating on $200 million of Kansas economic development bonds because of cuts to the supporting tax.