Southwest

Oklahoma hopes to close on a federal loan this summer for rural highway construction and improvements that would tap into $200 million of borrowing authorized by a 2021 state law.

A taxable bond issue will raise $3.4 billion for extraordinary costs incurred by natural gas utilities during deadly Winter Storm Uri that hit Texas in 2021.

Like last week, supply for the new-calendar issuance is light at $4.804 billion with $3.182 billion of negotiated deals and $1.622 billion of competitive loans.

Denver will head to the municipal market next week with its biggest new money general obligation bond sale ever at $366.4 million.

After dropping dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, energy severance tax revenue is soaring along with oil and gas prices.

The combined Utah-based Intermountain and Colorado-based SCL will operate 33 hospitals and 385 clinics in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Kansas.

Photos from The Bond Buyer's 2022 Texas Public Finance conference.

Despite speakers' objections over the cost of the project or the need for more restorative justice measures instead of incarceration, all three commissioners voted in favor of the referendum.

Firms remain uncertain about how state laws that apply litmus tests for banks and others seeking contracts with governmental entities impact them.

Underwriters sidelined by the state's new litmus test on firearms policies have bought many past Texas TRANs, but the state won't need to issue any this year.