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 is easing a strict quarantine requirement that has left its all-important tourism industry with very few tourists.
October 15 -
Stifel public finance banker James Cervantes didn’t anticipate his retirement party would involve masks and social distancing.
October 9 - The COVID-19 pandemic has pummeled the segments of the American economy tied to public gatherings. For the cities and industries most reliant on bringing people together, adaptation and perseverance will be critical.Sponsored by Assured Guaranty
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The company's upcoming $3.2 billion deal marks the largest sale of unrated debt in the muni market.
October 1 -
The state's new accounting system gets the blame again for California's second year with an extremely late CAFR.
September 24 -
The towns of Phoenix and Talent have been decimated, losing 2,350 homes.
September 17 -
The news is credit positive for the second-tier airport in the wake of JetBlue's departure, according to Moody's.
September 8 -
The stop-and-go 2020 legislative session left some lawmakers feeling there is unfinished business in Sacramento.
September 3 -
Firefighters are waging battle against an estimated 7,000 fires of varying sizes throughout the state; nearly 1.5 million acres have burned.
August 28 -
The structure in which bonds are backed by a lease of city streets is being used in the Southern California cities of Torrance and West Covina.
August 20