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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The strength of the California economy suggests it deserves higher ratings, CreditSights said, but slowing revenues could mean the state's credit has peaked.
October 25 -
The Sherwood school district in northwest Oregon had its issuer rating downgraded to A3 from A1 by Moody's Investors Service.
October 6 -
The bills signed by the California governor include one allocating nearly $1.5 billion to University of California campuses for climate change research.
September 26 -
The capital finance director of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission delivered some biting remarks to states banning underwriters based on political issues.
September 14 -
The Bond Buyer conference, held online in 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic, returns in person Monday in Los Angeles for the first time since 2019.
September 9 -
Richmond issued $154.1 million in pension obligation bonds in a refunding that terminates swaps, ends a county intercept, and extends the final maturity.
September 8 -
Economists presented a good news-bad news scenario during their September forecast that included the possibility of a recession, which would kill the kicker rebate.
September 2 -
The 30-member syndicate plans to begin retail order pricing Wednesday with institutional sales planned for Sept. 8 on the new money and refunding GOs.
September 1 -
Raul Amezcua, who once led Stifel's California and Arizona banking teams, hired several key bankers at Ramirez & Co. since joining the firm early last year.
August 25 -
Kosmont firm has rebranded and brought on two L.A.-area heavy hitters in public finance.
August 22
