Politics and policy
Politics and policy
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Democrats could attempt to revive Build America Bonds as part of a bipartisan infrastructure bill following their House victory.
November 6 -
State officials say the P3 structure will allow it to complete the Interstate 75 project a decade early.
November 6 -
Sales tax growth in Texas grew 7.3% year-over-year to an October record of $2.6 billion, the state's comptroller said.
November 6 -
States have reversed deterioration found last May.
November 6 -
The state's largest retirement fund is advancing the planned buyouts as its unfunded liabilities continue to increase.
November 5 -
School vouchers in Arizona and bond measures in Colorado are among the fiscal ballot measures Southwest voters will decide Tuesday.
November 5 -
The Port of Corpus Christi will team up with the Carlyle Group to finance a $1.2 billion oil export terminal designed to enhance the port's ranking as the top energy exporting hub.
October 30 -
Write-downs on two major U.S. public-private partnerships led to the company decision, Skanska’s president said.
October 26 -
Five states also elect governors and voters in two states decide whether to restrict future tax increases.
October 24 -
Moody's Investors Service downgraded Vermont to Aa1, and downgraded other credits that are notched off the state's bond rating.
October 24 -
A new law takes effect Nov. 1 to allow New Jersey to collect sales tax on products shipped from out of state in the wake of the Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling.
October 19 -
California revenues were $1.03 billion ahead of estimates in the first quarter of the fiscal year, according to the state's Department of Finance.
October 18 -
Proposition 4 would authorize $1.5 billion in state GO bonds for 13 childrens' hospitals around the state, eight of them private nonprofits.
October 18 -
An initiative that would create a separate property tax assessment system for non-residential properties qualified for the 2020 ballot.
October 16 -
Democrat Gretchen Whitmer and Republican Bill Schuette are running for the open seat of Michigan governor.
October 16 -
School districts are asking voters for more than a billion dollars while the major candidates pledge more K-12 funding.
October 16 -
The state pulled in $28.7 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2019, according to the State Controller's Office.
October 16 -
Technology problems with the nation's first commuter rail P3 threaten to unravel the partnership and junk the bonds issued for the project.
October 15 -
More than 100 local governments around the state will ask their voters to approve tax measures in November.
October 11 -
The three states are in the bottom of a ranking of state fiscal conditions by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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