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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Gov. Tina Kotek sent a letter to transportation commissioners asking them to scrap a tolling plan for Portland-area highways that was seven years in the making.
March 15 -
Though the economists don't expect a recession looking out two years, there is a lot of risk related to the conflict in the middle east and uncertainty around monetary policy.
March 13 -
Raymond James' 10 hires include six senior bankers and an entire Citi public finance team focused on California.
March 11 -
One investor is offloading the debt, while another sees an opportunity.
March 8 -
The San Diego Community College District is among those joining the trend of buying back bonds in a tender to refund for savings.
March 4 -
Washington state lawmakers approved a $14.6 billion two-year transportation budget, a $1 billion increase.
March 1 -
FEMA, state and cities have been in a dispute over federal funding locals say was promised to place homeless people in hotels after the pandemic struck. Officials say the recent outlay doesn't cover the disputed time frame.
February 28 -
The state's largest healthcare district by land mass is at risk of breaching financial covenants, according to Moody's Investors Service.
February 26 -
"I think we are starting toward higher volume," said Raul Amezcua, senior director at Samuel A. Ramirez & Co.
February 23 -
Western Alliance Bank has named Woo senior director of treasury management in the bank's corporate finance and public and nonprofit finance groups.
February 16
