Southwest

With new competition fast approaching, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is returning to the debt market to price $367 million of revenue bonds for its terminal renewal and improvement program.

A Travis County civil court judge has denied a request for a restraining order seeking a halt to voting on $892 million of general obligation bonds sought by Austin ISD.

A supplemental budget for fiscal 2014 submitted last week by Gov. Sam Brownback includes a request for $202 million of state bonds for a bio-defense laboratory.

Arkansas tax collections hit the highest total monthly total ever in April, with $817.4 million of general fund revenue coming in.

Arkansas's gross general fund revenue is expected to total $6.1 billion in fiscal 2013 and $6.23 billion in fiscal 2014 under the new official forecast.

Phoenix's temporary food tax will drop to 1% from the current 2% in January under a budget plan ordered last week by the City Council.

The Texas Senate is considering whether taxpayers should bail out investors in a failed private prison that has remained vacant since it was completed in 2010.

Oklahoma's top income rate will go to 5% on Jan. 1, 2015, from the current 5.25% with final passage of a tax bill.

Colorado's $20.5 billion budget signed into law this week by Gov. John Hickenlooper provides $188 million for capital construction that is expected to be funded by bonds.

A bill that would have provided $2 billion of bonds from the Texas rainy day fund for water projects appeared dead in the state House after a procedural move by opponents.