Keeley Webster
The Bond Buyer
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Oregon's new governor delivers 'mission-focused' budget proposal
The budget "starts and ends with the housing and homelessness crisis because housing is fundamental to everything else in a person's life," said Gov. Tina Kotek. → Read More
Hawaii governor proposes tourism tax, income tax cuts
Newly-elected Gov. Josh Green outlined the proposals during his State of the State speech on Monday. → Read More
Los Angeles County Supervisors declare homelessness state of emergency
The county supervisors follow a similar declaration from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to speed up efforts to deal with the homelessness crisis. → Read More
Siebert adds Sean Boyea as managing director in new Sacramento office
Boyea brings more than three decades of public finance experience to the minority- and women-owned heavyweight firm's new office in California's state capital. → Read More
Akshai Patel
Akshai Patel, 39, an accidental banker, moved to RBC after founding a Phoenix, Arizona, charter school. → Read More
California's citizens' initiative process needs improvement: poll
Improvements to the signature-gathering initiative process topped voters wish list for changes, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. → Read More
Roger Davis
Davis was a key figure in leading Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to its top position in the rankings for bond counsel. → Read More
Is California declining, or a growth engine? Depends who you ask
California has been losing legacy companies, but boosters say it remains an incubator for new technology companies. → Read More
Los Angeles reopens subsidized housing program after five-year pause
City leaders announced the availability of 30,000 Section 8 housing vouchers this week. → Read More
California revenues below forecast for second month of fiscal year
California revenues are $2 billion below its 2023-23 Budget Act forecast for the first two months of the fiscal year 2023. → Read More
California Public Finance conference returns as an in-person event
The Bond Buyer conference, held online in 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic, returns in person Monday in Los Angeles for the first time since 2019. → Read More
California's homebuyer program gives the state a stake in the homes
Lawmakers approved the first $500 million for the program as a trailer bill to the fiscal 2023 budget. Bonds may be used to fill the gap. → Read More
IIJA funding opens door for more infrastructure P3s, panelists say
States face a multi-trillion infrastructure gap, which they need to address with a sense of urgency, a speaker at the Milken Institute Global Conference said. → Read More
California revenues beat projections by $17.5 billion
The state's workaround to the cap on state and local tax deductions in the 2017 federal tax law might be artificially elevating the figures. → Read More
California lawmakers save UC Berkeley from enrollment crisis with last-minute bill
The enrollment controversy hasn't affected the nine-campus University of California system's bond ratings. → Read More
Soaring per-unit costs criticized in Los Angeles housing bond audit
The city's current trajectory could drive per-unit costs to $1 million, according to the audit by City Controller Ron Galperin. → Read More
California keeps refunding, sending Far West to big volume gain
Issuers in California sold more than $86 billion of municipal bonds in 2021. → Read More
Applicants line up for California IBank's wildfire prevention funding
The climate change pilot program fund has attracted more than 40 interested parties seeking $47 million of funding. → Read More
Washington's economic strength could drive pricing on state's $743.5M GOs
Washington plans to sell the GOs by competitive bid on Feb. 8 to fund various projects. → Read More
Why municipal electric utilities seek deals with cryptocurrency miners
Utilities in Texas and eastern Washington see the benefit of serving the power hungry operations. → Read More