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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Moody's views the ruling positively, but S&P says the court sidestepped the main issue.
March 11 -
Scott Mitnick, who was county administrator of Sutter County, California, will be a director at financial advisory firm KNN Public Finance.
March 8 -
If the budget passes as proposed, some municipalities would default on bonds, said the president of the Alaska Municipal League.
March 7 -
State Sen. John Moorlach's legislation would make California only the second state to adopt the machine-readable computer language for financial documents.
March 5 -
The California Supreme Court left the so-called California Rule on pensions untouched in a ruling favoring the state's right to eliminate an "air time" benefit.
March 4 -
Trump has threatened to divert $3.6 billion of military construction funds to pay for a border wall.
March 1 -
Lawmakers are weighing legislation that would authorize $100 million of special purpose revenue bonds to build and operate the plant.
February 25 -
The school district, which has about 50,000 students, faces a $30 million deficit in fiscal 2020.
February 19 -
Fitch downgraded many of the district’s bonds to BBB-plus, but those it views as having pledged special revenues stay AAA.
February 14 -
California has issued $3.3 billion of general obligation bonds for the high-speed rail project out of $9.9 billion authorized by voters.
February 14