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 audit reported "significant evidence" of malfeasance at the Sweetwater Union High School District and cast a skeptical eye on why it chose a bond rater.
July 1 -
Citing market turmoil from the pandemic, a California conduit issuer gave the Virgin Trains USA project a five-month extension to sell $3.25 billion of debt.
June 29 -
Protecting the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds and reviving Build America Bonds are priorities for the New Partnership on Infrastructure.
June 25 -
Century Housing says it has financed 45,000 affordable housing units, but this marks its first venture into the municipal bond market with a muni CUSIP.
June 19 -
Oregon's $320.4 million of taxable GO bonds were 7.7 times oversubscribed in some maturities.
June 11 -
The University of California and California State University systems are better positioned than many higher education peers to face the impacts of COVID-19.
June 4 -
The path to recovery from the coronavirus — medical and economic — remains murky and unclear.
May 21 -
California may need to use interfund borrowing to get its budget into balance, Gavin Newsom said.
May 15 -
California lawmakers have tough decisions ahead as they work to balance the budget, Gavin Newsom said in introducing the "May Revise" budget.
May 14 -
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments this fall in California v. Texas.
May 7