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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Angelica Valencia is considered integral to the firm's California and Puerto Rico practices.
February 12 -
Moody's Investors Service placed about $1 billion of debt issued for California's former redevelopment agencies on review for upgrade.
February 11 -
The San Diego-area system is issuing municipal debt to fund its acquisition of for-profit Northcentral University.
February 1 -
The Chapter 11 filing creates uncertainty for the state and localities where the utility operates.
January 30 -
Petek has covered California's state government as a public finance rating analyst for S&P Global Ratings.
January 17 -
The governor said his proposed fiscal 2020 budget represents a 4% increase over this current budget, of which 80% is one-time costs.
January 10 -
Amid bankruptcy talk about the investor-owned utility, the fate of its $18 billion in corporate bonds could impact the municipal bond market.
January 10 -
Revenue from taxes on legal marijuana has not reached the point of being able to support bonds, industry observers say.
January 3 -
Melanie Her will be based in San Francisco.
December 18 -
Revenues have exceeded expectations for both the month and the fiscal year.
December 17