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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Conine edged out Trump-supported Michelle Fiore for the treasurer's seat.
November 14 -
Akshai Patel, 39, an accidental banker, moved to RBC after founding a Phoenix, Arizona, charter school.
November 14 -
Improvements to the signature-gathering initiative process topped voters wish list for changes, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
November 14 -
The rating agency zeroed in on a handful of measures in a state where voters considered billions in bond measures.
November 10 -
The San Benito Health Care District board declared a fiscal emergency, a first step to declaring Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy under California law.
November 9 -
Larry Kosmont, chairman and CEO of Kosmont Companies, discussed the interplay between state and local governments as electeds work to solve the state's housing crisis with Keeley Webster, a senior reporter for The Bond Buyer. (18 minutes)
November 8 -
Incumbent Fiona Ma, facing Republican Jack Guerrero in her re-election bid, will change up top staff members if she wins as expected.
November 3 -
The rating agency lifted the outlook of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest, to positive.
November 2 -
Several California cities have waged a multi-year climate change battle against oil companies
October 26 -
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 -
The debt issued through conduit Gallatin County, Montana, benefits an aerial firefighting company that went public through a SPAC weeks after the bonds sold.
August 11
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