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The California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission explored public finance solutions to child sexual abuse claims this week at an event in San Diego.

Muni experts discussed how macroeconomic concerns and a volatile political environment are affecting the market as the market chalks up another record year of issuance.

Municipal bond insurance volume grew 17.7% year-over-year in the first three quarters of 2025, according to LSEG, outpacing the municipal market as a whole.

Meanwhile, the Brightline West train project has floated a possible debt exchange ahead of its own mandatory redemption later this month.

City Manager Oliver Chi unveiled a plan to invest $60 million to change the city's current trajectory.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will sell $977.6 million of water revenue bonds as it grapples with the impacts of January's devastating wildfire.

California's largest health workers union sent ballot language to state Attorney General Rob Bonta in an effort to add a wealth tax proposal to the November 2026 ballot.

The northern California school district has been struggling for years and on several occasions abandoned plans to consolidate schools, which rating agencies say might have shored up finances.

California's recent tax revenues exceeded forecasts, but the state faces structural deficits that drive budgetary borrowing and have narrowed its reserves.

This will be Charvel's second stint as the city's CFO.