Southwest

DALLAS — The largest business association in Texas on Wednesday intervened in one of a cluster of lawsuits seeking to overturn the state’s public school funding system.

DALLAS — The Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Ariz., faces another potential hit to its professional sports fortunes as the Arizona Cardinals and the Arizona Sports Tourism Authority are demanding $66.7 million to compensate for stadium parking spaces lost to an outlet mall.

DALLAS — Fulbright & Jaworski public finance attorney Adrian Patrick Patterson has moved to Andrews Kurth as partner in the Houston office, the law firm said.

DALLAS — As neighboring states seek ways to reduce prison costs, Arizona plans to continue to build public and private cells under an $8.5 billion budget headed for final legislative approval in Phoenix.

DALLAS — Aiming to recover some ground lost to the recession, the Arizona Sports Tourism Authority will shed variable-rate bonds and seek savings with a $177 million refunding of debt issued to finance the University of Phoenix Stadium.

DALLAS — A continuing decline in severance tax revenues caused by low natural gas prices will not blow a hole in Oklahoma’s proposed fiscal 2013 budget, Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger said Friday.

The citizens bond committee reviewing projects for inclusion in Austin’s general obligation bond election has cut the total proposal to $659 million from a potential $1.5 billion.

A total of $52.7 billion of Texas public school district general obligation bonds were covered by the Permanent School Fund bond guarantee program as of Aug. 31, 2011. Unused capacity totaled $18 billion.

Trustees of Pulaski Technical College voted last week to delay a property tax election until the measure can be the only tax item on the ballot.

The popular titles of two bond-related Arkansas constitutional amendments to be decided at November’s general election were approved last week by Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.