Keeley Webster has covered the Bond Buyer's nine-state West Coast region for more than a decade. Prior to The Bond Buyer, she wrote about commercial real estate for the award-winning California Real Estate Journal until the paper folded. She moved into business reporting in 2000, but has covered politics, cops, courts, education and environmental issues for newspapers in seven different states. She has won several awards for her work, including an Associated Press award for in-depth reporting.
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Between two state measures and one regional, California starts with $40 billion of GO bonds on the November ballot, before any other local measures are tallied.
July 5 -
Marina Wiant was named to head California treasurer committees that set the debt limit, determine how the private-activity capacity is deployed and play a critical role in financing the construction of affordable rental housing in the state.
January 11 -
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This week's deal will prime the pump for another $2.5 billion in loans Freddie Mac plans to securitize in the next two to three years.
March 18 -
The elimination of private activity bonds “would throw gasoline on a housing shortage," said John Chiang, California's treasurer.
November 9 -
A 15-bill housing package includes $4 billion in bonds.
October 12 -
A bill to strengthen consumer protections for Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs is headed to the governor’s desk.
September 12 -
A Cathedral City, Calif., master-planned community has drawn on reserves twice in the past six months for bonds issued to build the project's infrastructure.
April 3 -
The Los Angeles City Council joined Los Angeles County in trying to get California Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency for the problem of homelessness.
August 24 -
California priced $446 million in veterans' general obligation bonds last week in a combined refunding/new money sale.
October 13
