California

California tax revenues missed projections by $412.2 million, marking the first time in months that the state has fallen short.

The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Dec. 5 on a case to decide what pension rights are vested for government employees in the state.

Katano Kasaine, director of finance for the City of Oakland, Calif., and Noreen White, co-founder of Acacia Financial Group, will receive the 2018 Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance.

Stradling, Yocca & Rauth's public finance practice has grown along with California.

The California Budget & Policy Center says blowback from new tariffs will hit California because China is a major export market.

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.

The state pulled in $28.7 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2019, according to the State Controller's Office.

The city-owned airport has $6.2 billion of outstanding bonds and plans to embark on several refundings.

More than 100 local governments around the state will ask their voters to approve tax measures in November.

Larry Kosmont's advisory and real estate firm thrived after the state axed local redevelopment agencies.

State Auditor Elaine Howle said the state's housing department's oversight of bond expenditures is inconsistent.