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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A lot is at stake for facilities like Los Angeles International Airport, which has a $15 billion capital improvements program underway.
April 21 -
The budget represents a turn-around as the county got a handle on pandemic-related expenses.
April 20 -
Moody's deemed the temporary gas tax holidays implemented in several states credit negative.
April 14 -
The Washington-based system faces challenges, including operating pressures, variable utilization, and weaker liquidity making it more difficult for it to absorb the impact at its previous rating level.
April 6 -
Montebello Unified priced a $12.2 million tax-exempt refunding, but didn't execute a planned taxable tranche.
April 4 -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his party's leaders have proposed conflicting plans to give residents relief from gas taxes.
March 28 -
The Sites Reservoir received two doses of good news on its financing last week — a federal loan and an increased allocation from a 2014 statewide bond.
March 21 -
The enrollment controversy hasn't affected the nine-campus University of California system's bond ratings.
March 15 -
Lloyd Nemerever will lead portfolio management for the firm's municipal bond-focused separately managed accounts.
March 11 -
California's housing crisis and rising gas prices and inflation are hot-button issues as Gov. Gavin Newsom's May budget revision draws near.
March 10 -
The lawsuits challenge the procedures the NFL used to move the San Diego Chargers to Los Angeles.
March 7 -
Forty-one of the state's 115 school districts are floating bond measures or seeking tax levy increases.
March 4 -
The U.S. and European Commission moved Saturday to disconnect Russia from a global financial system.
February 28 -
Between unspent money from last year and excess revenues, Oregon lawmakers have nearly $1 billion of extra money to spend.
February 11 -
The school board, caught between budget pressure and angry parents, could vote Tuesday to close or merge 16 schools in the California school district amid waning enrollment.
February 7 -
Washington plans to sell the GOs by competitive bid on Feb. 8 to fund various projects.
February 2 -
Utilities in Texas and eastern Washington see the benefit of serving the power hungry operations.
January 31 -
Schank, who will be a managing principal at the private consultancy, said he accomplished the goals he set when he moved to LA Metro seven years ago.
January 25 -
The Marshall Fire burned 6,000 acres in 24 hours and destroyed more than 1,000 homes in suburban Boulder County between Denver and Boulder.
January 24 -
The city’s financial status was so distressed after the 2008 economic crash that there was talk of insolvency.
January 13
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