Southwest

Kathryn V. Garner has joined Haynes and Boone LLP as a partner and public finance specialist.

Oklahoma state revenues of $1.16 billion in April were $83 million more than in April 2011 despite a slide in oil and gas production tax collections.

A Kansas legislative conference committee adopted a compromise tax-cutting plan designed to avoid large budget gaps in the future.

Arkansas’ April revenues of $588.9 million were boosted by better than predicted collections from sales and income taxes.

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.