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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LACMA, one of Los Angeles' most prominent museums, will refund debt and move forward on construction of a building for its permanent collection.
January 5 -
Bel Air Investment Advisors is Hightower's 14th and largest acquisition in a year, with $8 billion of assets under management including $2.8 billion of municipals.
January 5 -
The budget included reduced capital improvement and GO issuance plans over the biennium.
December 23 -
The Legislature approved $800 million for the state's emergency fund.
December 22 -
The commuter rail that runs between San Jose and San Francisco benefitted from a criteria revision on not-for-profit transportation infrastructure.
December 21 -
The state’s three largest sources of general fund revenues — personal income tax, sales and use tax and corporation tax — all beat expectations.
December 18 -
The state Supreme Court declined to hear the case, ending a fiscal and legal dispute with the basketball team that left for San Francisco last year.
December 17 -
AAPA contends Congress should provide aid to ports as the industry has been hammered by COVID-19.
December 16 -
Clark County, Nevada's reserve draw, brought about by low hotel tax revenues, has no rating impact on the limited tax general obligation bonds, Moody's said.
December 11 -
California overcame a legal challenge to use bond authority to provide housing for homeless people suffering from mental illness.
December 11