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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Washington state lawmakers approved a $14.6 billion two-year transportation budget, a $1 billion increase.
March 1 -
FEMA, state and cities have been in a dispute over federal funding locals say was promised to place homeless people in hotels after the pandemic struck. Officials say the recent outlay doesn't cover the disputed time frame.
February 28 -
The state's largest healthcare district by land mass is at risk of breaching financial covenants, according to Moody's Investors Service.
February 26 -
"I think we are starting toward higher volume," said Raul Amezcua, senior director at Samuel A. Ramirez & Co.
February 23 -
Western Alliance Bank has named Woo senior director of treasury management in the bank's corporate finance and public and nonprofit finance groups.
February 16 -
Moody's Investors Service placed the university under review for downgrade, citing in part debt that would be issued to purchase the University of Phoenix.
February 16 -
The proposed $1 billion bond measure would fund port improvements needed to push the state's nascent offshore wind power industry forward.
February 16 -
The rating agency cited traction on its financial turnaround in revising the outlook on the junk-rated hospital to stable from negative.
February 14 -
The sale of the bonds allowed ACTA to reshape its debt service profile and avoid projected debt service shortfalls by refunding into capital appreciation bonds and extending maturity dates.
February 12 -
The broker-dealer expands by creating its newly established public finance group in California.
February 9