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Siebert Brandford Shank hired former Houston deputy city controller Shawnell Holman as managing director and co-manager of its Houston office.

The Austin, Texas City Council is considering bond projects worth about $189 million to accommodate the growing passenger traffic at Austin Bergstrom International Airport.

DALLAS –Texas public education advocates called on lawmakers to use the rainy day fund and unanticipated tax revenues to restore spending cuts in the current two-year state budget.

Oklahoma state revenues from oil and gas production taxes fell below year-earlier totals again in September, but Treasurer Ken Miller says the worst may be over.

Colorado State University will build a $250 million stadium on its Fort Collins, Colo., campus if promoters can raise half that amount through voluntary contributions, CSU President Tony Frank announced Monday.

Round Rock Independent School District, Texas may ask voters for a $184 million school bond authorization.

Trustees of South San Antonio Independent School District have appointed a new citizens bond committee after dissolving the previous tension-plagued panel

Proponents of the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture in Tulsa will ask the 2013 Legislature for a $42.5 million bond issue.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback appointed a panel to determine if school districts are concentrating their spending on classroom instruction.

Kansas general fund revenues in September beat expectations by almost 5%.