Southwest

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is fending off allegations that the $3 billion cancer research bond program that won statewide voter approval in 2007 is funding projects for his campaign contributors.

The New Mexico Transportation Commission will detour the wreckage of the New Mexico Finance Authority with $215 million of refunding bonds.

A recent telephone survey of voters in the Judson Independent School District found a majority in the San Antonio school district would support a May 2013 bond request to build two schools.

Texas collected more than $2 billion from state and local sales taxes in October as revenues rose 8.2% from October 2011.

Broken Arrow officials said they may ask for a bond referendum in 2014 after Tulsa County voters earlier this month rejected an extension of a sales tax that would have provided the city with a total of $44 million.

Revisions and corrections to the property tax rolls in Pulaski County reduced total assessed valuations to $28.1 billion from the $30 billion originally reported to the state after a county-wide reappraisal was completed in April.

Gov. Mike Beebe proposed a $4.9 billion general revenue budget for fiscal 2014 in a presentation last week to the Arkansas Legislative Council and the Joint Budget Committee.

Mesa is on track to bring in more than the $131 million of sales tax revenue expected in fiscal 2013, officials said last week in the city’s latest financial report.

A Texas legislative board adopted a growth plan to limit increases in state spending from non-dedicated revenue.

Faced with a sewer system that San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro says is "falling apart," the San Antonio Water System is proposing a rate increase of nearly 10% to help finance maintenance.