Southwest

Texas sales tax revenue in June rose 9.1% year over year to $2.17 billion, state Comptroller Susan Combs said last week.

A bill that would provide tuition revenue bonds for 62 construction projects for Texas college and university campuses won a House committee's approval, despite the fact that outgoing Gov. Rick Perry has not added the issue to the call for the legislature's second special session of the year.

Oklahoma may no longer be able to afford to provide tax incentives for a common oil and gas drilling method, state finance secretary warns.

Standard & Poor's raised the credit rating on the troubled North Forest Independent School District to AA-plus from its previous junk-bond rating of B after the district's annexation by the Houston Independent School District.

Backers of a new city library in Wichita, Kans., will have to find other funding options after the City Council rejected a plan for $29 million of bonds for the project.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin created a 15-member task force to look into the operations of Grand River Dam Authority ahead of the agency's planned $380 million bond program.

Denver will price one of its largest issues of airport bonds Thursday, offering $736 million of subordinate-lien debt for construction of its South Terminal hotel and commuter rail station.

Glendale, Ariz.'s decision to lease its Jobing.com arena to a proposed new owner of the Phoenix Coyotes National Hockey League team is credit negative, says Moody's Investors Service.

Texas' longest-serving Gov. Rick Perry will not seek a fourth term in 2014, he told supporters in San Antonio Monday. He didn't indicate whether he plans a second run for president.

Triple-A-rated Utah will offer investors a safe bet this week with $217 million of general obligation bonds for the Beehive State's growing highway system.