Public finance

Mineral Wells City Council, Texas, on Tuesday unanimously set Nov. 7 as the day residents can decide the outcomes of three proposed capital improvement projects.

South Haven is poised to receive drainage relief.

Musser will concentrate on public finance, governmental law, procurement and construction.

November's ballot will feature $495 million in public improvement bonds after City Council agreed Wednesday to send the package to Houston voters.

Attorneys dismiss complaints over valuation of amenities in $102 million bond sale as “sophistry.”

The governor wants an amendment requiring a supermajority vote of lawmakers to raise taxes and fees.

The South Carolina agency says the rate increases are unneeded even with $7.7 billion of bonds to support.

A local philanthropist's offer to pay much of the cost to build a larger downtown Menlo Park Library has the city scrambling to meet a potential funding deadline.

An Orange County agency agreed to issue $8 million in tax-exempt bonds for a Hasidic congregation in June, money that the group said it would use to buy the two boys schools and surrounding property that it had been renting on County Route 105 in Monroe and Woodbury.