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The state auditor raised questions about how the state controller reported California's OPEB liability in the report, which took 11 months to release.
August 1 -
University of Alaska President Jim Jensen has six weeks to craft a plan to consolidate three universities.
July 31 -
A new state law established the wildfire fund to provide a financial buffer for claims against utilities.
July 26 -
The San Diego Association of Governments deal, backed by a federal capital grant, is structured to allay investor concerns about funding delays.
July 25 -
Facing Gov. Mike Dunleavy's 40% cut in state funding, the regents passed a measure allowing it to lay off tenured professors and close campuses.
July 23 -
CommonSpirit Health will sell $2.7 billion of taxable bonds and $3.1 billion of tax-exempt debt, with BBB-plus ratings, into a supply-starved market.
July 18 -
Registered advisory firm Dale Scott & Co. will pay $25,000, and one firm and one individual each will pay $10,000 for acting as unregistered solicitors.
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Marybel Batjer will head the Public Utilities Commission as investor-owned utilities struggle with wildfire liabilities.
July 15 -
The firm opened its fifth California office by hiringbanker José Vera in Pasadena.
July 12 -
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill to establish the wildfire fund, to be seeded with new bonds backed by an old utility ratepayer surcharge.
July 12 -
RBC Capital Markets added Ian Parker as it positions itself to help issuers bring to market billions of dollars in authorized affordable housing debt.
July 11 -
A simple majority was enough to pass the two tax measures, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled.
July 9 -
As Stephen Heaney retires from Stifel Financial, Betsy Kiehn is stepping up to a new capital markets position at the firm.
June 27 -
Moody's downgrade to Aa3 affects $10.2 billion in outstanding debt.
June 21 -
Months after the school district cut a deal to end a teacher walkout, voters rejected a tax measure to help pay for it.
June 13 -
The upgrade to $2 billion of outstanding debt brings the county's ratings to the AA-plus level across the board.
June 4 -
State Controller Betty Yee blames the state's new digital accounting system for delaying the comprehensive annual financial report.
May 31 -
Minority Republicans had gummed up progress by forcing the House clerk to read every line of every bill, before two members broke ranks.
May 30 -
At stake is an estimated $880 billion in annual federal funding from 300 programs that use census data to distribute funds.
May 23 -
The Trump administration canceled $929 million of funding that had been appropriated for California high-speed rail.
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