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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David Hartley, who died in July at 92, was managing partner of Stone & Youngberg when he retired in 1991.
August 18 -
State lawmakers closed a $1.2 billion budget hole during a 15-hour special session, but they may need to return in the absence of federal coronavirus aid.
August 13 -
California's second-largest district says it will apply stricter standards than the state's when in-person learning does resume.
August 11 -
Brown convened the special session for budget talks, but also anticipated talk on policy items, like police reform.
August 6 -
The drop in tourism amid the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a downgrade of Hawaii's ratings by Moody’s Investors Service affecting $9 billion in outstanding debt ahead of the state’s plans to price $900 million of taxable bonds Wednesday.
August 4 -
The California Supreme Court upheld the state's 2013 pension reform, but said its ruling is not a reexamination of the "California Rule" on public pensions.
July 30 -
San Francisco International Airport will issue $291 million in refunding bonds amid belt-tightening efforts driven by a massive drop in passengers.
July 30 -
Fitch Ratings cut Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District in Imperial County to BB from BBB-minus.
July 29 -
The new effort won't expand the Los Angeles Police Department budget, which was trimmed after the George Floyd protests and calls to "defund the police."
July 28 -
UMB claims the bonds for the Kansas hotel project are in default because the developer failed to secure a $52 million loan required by the bond indenture.
July 6