Southwest

Cities and states in the Southwest are making affordable housing a funding priority through voter-approved general obligation bonds or in their budgets.

The Water Infrastructure Financing Authority will use information it received from banks, businesses, conservation groups, and others to solicit water augmentation projects next year.

The nation's fourth-largest city will have new officials at the helm of its government and finances for the first time in eight years.

The Arizona Board of Regents adopted a report recommending greater oversight of its three universities after the University of Arizona hit financial trouble.

A project to build a new arena for the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder will move forward after voters approved the extension of a sales tax.

The top five bond financings have an average dollar volume of more than $1 billion.

The state would raise $500 million through internal debt sales backed by oil and natural gas severance tax revenue to fund long-term water purchase contracts.

Finance officials from Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Palm Beach County have joined Israel Bonds' new Government, Industry and Financial Services Leadership group.

A constitutional amendment approved by Texas voters Nov. 7 will reduce public school property taxes, leaving the state to make up for the revenue reduction.

More than one out of every 100 residents who pay income taxes left the Empire State during the pandemic in 2020, according to report released by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. And, while slowing, the trend hasn't stopped.