Keeley Webster has covered the Bond Buyer's nine-state West Coast region for more than a decade. Prior to The Bond Buyer, she wrote about commercial real estate for the award-winning California Real Estate Journal until the paper folded. She moved into business reporting in 2000, but has covered politics, cops, courts, education and environmental issues for newspapers in seven different states. She has won several awards for her work, including an Associated Press award for in-depth reporting.
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The state's record per-pupil spending counteracts concerns over enrollment declines.
April 28 -
The 3.7% shortfall for the first nine months of the fiscal year was driven largely by shortfalls in personal income tax receipts.
April 24 -
The proposed budget would add 400 more police officers and spend $1.3 billion on programs to ease homelessness.
April 20 -
The amount of time governments took to produce audited financials has increased by double-digits during an 11-year period.
April 18 -
The bill would allow information about the financial impact of ballot measures to be placed in the voter information guide, rather than on the ballot.
April 13 -
The Southern California Public Power Authority plans to price $700 million in revenue bonds for improvements to a 488-mile power transmission system.
April 13 -
Eleven states from California to South Dakota will receive funding for 83 projects to improve water delivery systems, the Biden administration announced.
April 6 -
California filed a disclosure notice March 30 saying it would cover lease revenue bond payments for a damaged Central Valley agriculture lab.
April 5 -
Lawmakers resurrected a bill vetoed by Gov. Brad Little after amending it to remove a clause that jeopardized a transportation bond deal.
March 30 -
The Irvine Facilities Finance Authority will price $455 million in special tax bonds to develop the Great Park in the Orange County, California, city.
March 30