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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Although Hawaii lawmakers nixed his proposed tourist tax, Gov. Green points to positives.
May 8 -
Seattle's Sound Transit, the biggest beneficiary of a federal low-interest loan program, had received three more loans totaling $327 million.
May 5 -
Providing enough housing for middle class and homeless people has topped legislative agendas in three West Coast states and Hawaii this session.
May 4 -
"We need to have the debt ceiling raised quickly with close to $30 trillion in debt at risk," said Steve Mnuchin, the former treasury secretary.
May 3 -
Las Vegas sees March visitor totals similar to pre-pandemic March 2019, putting in on solid fiscal footing.
May 1 -
The state's record per-pupil spending counteracts concerns over enrollment declines.
April 28 -
The 3.7% shortfall for the first nine months of the fiscal year was driven largely by shortfalls in personal income tax receipts.
April 24 -
The proposed budget would add 400 more police officers and spend $1.3 billion on programs to ease homelessness.
April 20 -
The amount of time governments took to produce audited financials has increased by double-digits during an 11-year period.
April 18 -
The bill would allow information about the financial impact of ballot measures to be placed in the voter information guide, rather than on the ballot.
April 13
