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 reliance on tourism makes airports essential to its economy, Fitch said.
March 29 -
The watchdog would have the power to subpoena data from oil companies.
March 17 -
"What is happening at Silicon Valley Bank is on everyone's mind," UCLA Anderson Forecast Director Jerry Nickelsburg said at its quarterly economic update.
March 16 -
While other issuers have suffered ratings hits or had them withdrawn, California's ratings have not been impacted by its now perennially late ACFR.
March 14 -
The Bay Area Rapid Transit inspector general departed early saying the board obstructed her work.
March 13 -
Huntington Beach leaders say they are countersuing because the state is trying to micromanage the city's planning and zoning process to gain more housing.
March 10 -
One public hospital district violated a debt service covenant and was downgraded to junk; the other declared a fiscal emergency and seeks an outside partner.
March 2 -
Economists' quarterly forecast estimates lawmakers will have nearly $696 million more to spend than anticipated and taxpayers will receive $3.9 billion through the state's kicker rebate.
February 24 -
The Chamber of Commerce added Sen. Nancy Skinner's bill codifying the governor's proposal on oil companies to its 2023 job killer list.
February 15 -
California's bond ratings are likely to escape unscathed from the atmospheric rivers that caused an estimated $646 million in damage to the state's infrastructure.
February 3