Rich Saskal is a managing editor of The Bond Buyer. Since joining the publication in 2003, he has also worked as a reporter and as its Far West bureau chief. He has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.
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Fitch Ratings Tuesday assigned a junk rating to debt issued for the Sonoma County Indian Health Project.
November 11 - California
ALAMEDA, Calif. — California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office just raised the price tag for solving the state’s persistent budget deficits.
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CaliforniaALAMEDA, Calif. — California has firmed up its schedule for issuing almost $14 billion of debt before the Thanksgiving holiday.
November 9 - California
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Rice Financial Products Co. has added two municipal bond market veterans to its California ranks and plans to open a Los Angeles office by the end of 2010, the firm announced Friday.
November 8 - Hawaii
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Maui County, Hawaii, is trying some new things this week in the pricing of $74 million of general obligation bonds.
November 8 - California
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Two rating agencies delivered a split verdict Monday on California’s upcoming sale of $10 billion of revenue anticipation notes.
November 8 -
CaliforniaLate budgets will be a thing of the past, a key California lawmaker promised Wednesday, a day after the state's voters approved a measure that allows spending plans to pass the Legislature with a majority vote instead of two-thirds.
November 4 - Nevada
Nevada Treasurer Kate Marshall will serve a second term.
November 4 - Idaho
Idaho voters Tuesday approved three constitutional amendments that make it easier for governments and agencies to issue revenue bonds.
November 4 - Hawaii
Longtime Congressman Neil Abercrombie won a resounding election as Hawaii's governor Tuesday, on a night when the state bucked the national Republican trend.
November 4 - California
California local finance expert Michael Coleman reported that local school bond and tax measures had their worst showing Tuesday since he began tracking them in 2001.
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ALAMEDA, Calif. — Some old familiar names will join the wave of new faces in statehouses around the nation after Tuesday’s elections.
November 3 -
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Two years after voters north of San Francisco approved a sales tax to finance a new commuter rail line, the start of construction is in sight and the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit District prepares for its first bond issue.
November 1 -
CaliforniaALAMEDA, Calif. — California Treasurer Bill Lockyer, after jousting with credit ratings agencies for most of his first term, says he’ll carry on if he wins re-election Tuesday.
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Washington Treasurer James McIntire Tuesday announced a settlement agreement with State Street Bank that calls for it to pay $11.7 million to the state’s pension systems.
October 28 -
Responding to the fallout from the revelations of exorbitant salaries in the Southern California city of Bell, state Controller John Chiang Monday announced a new website listing the salary, pension benefits, and other compensation for more than 594,000 city and county employees throughout the state.
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ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Securities and Exchange Commission crossed a new threshold this week by securing financial penalties against individual city officials in a municipal bond fraud case.
October 27 -
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Vallejo, Calif., appointed a new interim city manager this week.
October 27 - California
ALAMEDA, Calif. — California has closed a $6.7 billion bridge loan with six financial institutions to help the state through a cash crunch, Treasurer Bill Lockyer announced Tuesday afternoon.
October 26 - California
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The California treasurer’s office is firming up details for a temporary cash-flow loan it expects to close next week, allowing the state to resume paying tax refunds and catch up on payments due to local agencies.
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