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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Huntington Beach leaders say they are countersuing because the state is trying to micromanage the city's planning and zoning process to gain more housing.
March 10 -
One public hospital district violated a debt service covenant and was downgraded to junk; the other declared a fiscal emergency and seeks an outside partner.
March 2 -
Economists' quarterly forecast estimates lawmakers will have nearly $696 million more to spend than anticipated and taxpayers will receive $3.9 billion through the state's kicker rebate.
February 24 -
The Chamber of Commerce added Sen. Nancy Skinner's bill codifying the governor's proposal on oil companies to its 2023 job killer list.
February 15 -
California's bond ratings are likely to escape unscathed from the atmospheric rivers that caused an estimated $646 million in damage to the state's infrastructure.
February 3 -
Newly-elected Gov. Josh Green outlined the proposals during his State of the State speech on Monday.
January 24 -
Moody's downgraded St. Mary's College of California to Baa3 with a negative outlook, affecting $53 million in debt issued through the California
January 17 -
The county supervisors follow a similar declaration from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to speed up efforts to deal with the homelessness crisis.
January 11 -
Most recently a California deputy treasurer, Schaefer was a trader, a banker and advisor with a deep legacy as a municipal bond market expert and mentor.
January 9 -
Boyea brings more than three decades of public finance experience to the minority- and women-owned heavyweight firm's new office in California's state capital.
January 6
