Randall Jensen

Fitch Ratings has withdrawn its ratings on $125 million of Oregon Bond Bank bonds.

Moody's Investors Service has placed the California Housing Finance Agency's home mortgage revenue bonds' A3 unenhanced rating on watch for possible downgrade, which could affect $6.2 billion of outstanding debt.

SAN FRANCISCO — A Superior Court judge in California has denied a lawsuit brought by a public employees' union that sought to block a plan for a public-private partnership to rebuild a road linking San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge.

SAN FRANCISCO — A long-debated plan to build a 600-room hotel next to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland may be rising from the grave.

Oregon’s Office of Economic Analysis has increased its revenue forecast for the state’s general fund by $3.3 million to $12.4 billion on the back of rising tax collections.

SAN FRANCISCO — Southern California’s Borrego Water District has defaulted on $9.5 million of special-tax bonds owned by Nuveen Asset Management.

SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s plan to lease city garages to private investors to raise money that would close a year-end budget hole and defease bonds is on the rocks.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Diego has shifted $215 million of future debt payments for its ballpark to its redevelopment agency in an effort to skirt the governor’s proposal to help fix a budget crisis by closing RDAs.

Standard & Poor’s has revised its outlook on outstanding University of Southern California debt to stable from negative because the school has maintained solid finances.

SAN FRANCISCO — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is banging the drum for a program to boost energy efficiency in schools, possibly paid for with bonds backed by the cost savings.

SAN FRANCISCO — Oregon’s treasurer has proposed $280 million in debt capacity for the next two-year budget to help finance economic development ­projects.

Sacramento will have to increase its annual contribution to the California Public Employees Retirement System by $5 million this year because of investment losses by Calpers in 2008, according to local media.

Fitch Ratings Tuesday downgraded $75 million of bonds issued for the University of Redlands by three notches because of dire finances.

SAN FRANCISCO — Anschutz Entertainment Group is pushing a $1 billion plan to build a football stadium and events center in downtown Los Angeles that could involve hundreds of millions of dollars of new debt and the retirement of outstanding bonds.

SAN FRANCISCO — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber unveiled a balanced budget proposal Tuesday for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 that reduces general-fund supported general obligation bond sales by 80% from the prior biennial spending cycle.

SAN FRANCISCO — Union workers are poised to fight a bankruptcy-exit proposal from Vallejo that has the California city paying them as little as 10 cents on the dollar.

SAN FRANCISCO — Victorville is in the hot seat.The city in Southern California’s high desert is facing a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into bond sales, a grand jury investigation into its finances, and inquiries from neighboring communities about its curious bond-financing practices.

Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Stockton’s issuer rating to A1 from Aa3 because of its tight budget position.

SAN FRANCISCO — Vallejo, Calif., has reached a tentative agreement with Union Bank that pays the bankrupt city’s largest creditor roughly 60 cents on the dollar.

SAN FRANCISCO — Pension liabilities have tripled from a year ago due to investment losses, siphoning scarce funds from San Francisco at a time when elected officials are already facing a $360 million budget shortfall.