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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Bell, a public finance investment banker, founded the Charles A. Bell Securities Corp.
May 21 -
Water agencies formed a joint powers authority to oversee construction on the $16.3 billion WaterFix project.
May 16 -
California passed the United Kingdom in 2017 to become the fifth-largest economy in the world, according to federal data.
May 7 -
Berkeley city leaders asked staff to conduct a cost analysis of a micro-bond blockchain proposal before moving ahead with such a deal.
May 3 -
Credit analysts, bond attorneys and issuers are among those reacting to the increasing risk computer crime poses to governments.
May 3 -
The tax and omnibus spending bills offer little relief for state and local infrastructure.
May 1 -
The treasury secretary said such a bill could pass within two months.
April 30 -
Backers say the blockchain "micro" bonds could finance a new fire truck for the California city.
April 27 -
Californians will weigh $13 billion in state water bond measures this year, split between two elections.
April 26 -
Vernon succeeded in its second stab at passing a utility tax that ends a practice of using a utility fund to close city deficits.
April 24