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The chair of California’s Assembly Committee on Transportation unveiled legislation he said would provide revenue to meet the state’s serious transportation needs.

The San Diego Association of Governments is holding public hearings to gauge public sentiment on a half-cent sales tax for transportation.

Initiative that would require California legislators to wear donor logos on their clothing moves forward.

The new chief executive officer of a California municipal advisory firm plans to grow the firm by acquiring smaller firms as the industry consolidates in the new regulatory environment.

The National Football League confirmed that the Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams and the San Diego Chargers all submitted applications to relocate to the Los Angeles area.

Standard & Poor’s downgraded Alaska Tuesday, to AA-plus from AAA, citing persistent low oil prices that have reduced the state government’s revenues.

Most states will be able to issue more private-activity bonds in 2016.

Infrastructure funding and municipal revenue could be on the chopping block when Washington state lawmakers convene.

New tolled express lane west of Denver is meeting early expectations for congestion relief within the I-70 corridor.

"I think it is a concern of many of [GFOA's] members that the MCDC initiative will be used to generate a large number of instances of issuer violations of the continuing disclosure agreements and obligations … and that the violations will be grouped and presented to Congress and SEC commissioners as the basis for organizing some kind of one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme to impose further regulation on issuers," said Dustin McDonald, GFOA federal liaison center director.