Southwest

Kansas House committee approved $202 million of bonds for the state's share of a bio-defense laboratory in Manhattan, Kan.

Texas voters will consider more than $2.5 billion of bond issues in sixty school districts across the state Saturday.

The first state sales tax on recreational marijuana cleared the Colorado General Assembly, with the first $40 million wholesale tax revenue directed to a bond program for school construction.

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.