California

Joshua Schank, chief innovation officer for Los Angeles Metro, weighs opportunities and challenges. Paul Burton hosts from the Smart Cities NYC conference.

Adding $374 million alleged in New York to the three other cases also filed by Johan Rosenberg brings the total damages claimed to $1.58 billion.

Waiving court fees on poor residents costs the city a small amount upfront but pays off in reducing unemployment and homelessness.

The Trump administration canceled $929 million of funding that had been appropriated for California high-speed rail.

GFOA had a previous president from the higher education sector, but Stone is the first from the K through 12 sphere.

Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Chair Gary Hall said the MSRB will examine governance rules such as the time period between when individuals leave their industry jobs and when they are allowed to become public board members.

GFOA members also will elect five new members-at-large.

The positive side is the bipartisan legislation for reinstatement introduced by 10 House lawmakers last week has a high possibility of being included in any infrastructure legislation that passes that chamber.

Long-term leases with container shipping tenants protect ports in the short to medium term should trade decline.

Kroll boosts San Diego rating to triple-A in wake of Puerto Rico court's special revenues decision.

California's April revenues came in $4 billion higher than anticipated.

Lawmakers have to wait another week for the governor's five-year infrastructure plan.

Legislation to put bond measures and the 2020 and 2022 ballots has cleared two Assembly committees.

The port's initiative is a credit-positive approach to the risk of online attacks, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Fiona Ma has been pushing the state's bond team to explore refundings and to sell new money bonds while rates remain low.

Trump's acting chief of staff said details may bedevil an infrastructure deal even if Democrats and Republicans agree on its size.

The fate of higher education was on the agenda at the Milken's Institute's Global Conference.

Utilities serving 40 million people and 5 million acres of irrigated farm land agreed to a federal plan to keep water flowing amid a two-decade drought.

The layout of Los Angeles means the concept wouldn't work as proposed in Manhattan, Eric Garcetti said in New York.

Eric Garcetti unveiled his fiscal 2020 budget proposal for Los Angeles.