California

Such "granny flats" may be the next frontier for PACE financing.

Under the mPower program, loans for energy retrofits are bundled into a revenue stream to back structured bonds sponsored by Placer Co., Calif. The program’s goal is in the spirit of energy efficiency and environmental sensitivity – a well-established policy in the state. Jenine Windeshausen, the county's Treasurer-Tax Collector and the county’s municipal advisor Kenneth Dieker of Del Rio Advisors review the program. John Hallacy is host.

Moody's Investors Service upgraded LAX ahead of the deal, bringing the subordinate bonds to the AA-minus level across the board.

The muni market will see volume rise in the last week of October as buyers will be treated with a billion deal from Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp. and a $714 million offering from the Department of Los Angeles airports.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced plans to form a joint-powers authority to provide electricity

The Los Angeles airport enterprise received a Moody's ratings boost ahead of plans to price $650 million in subordinate revenue bonds.

California and New York City are showing us the path forward, as they often do, in the face of the new limits on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

California revenues were $1.03 billion ahead of estimates in the first quarter of the fiscal year, according to the state's Department of Finance.

Proposition 4 would authorize $1.5 billion in state GO bonds for 13 childrens' hospitals around the state, eight of them private nonprofits.

An initiative that would create a separate property tax assessment system for non-residential properties qualified for the 2020 ballot.