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Public Pensions Archive
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Fat Cat Public Pensions Being Cut
Posted on August 11, 2011 | 5 Comments. . . By this time we should all be familiar with the stories about highly paid, sometimes excessively so, public officials retiring with multiple six figure pensions for life.... -
Tonight on Gadfly Radio: Martha with Norby, on Tomorrow’s CA Budget Deadline, Prison for Small-time Pot Growers, Redevelopment, and more
Posted on June 14, 2011 | 3 CommentsGadfly Radio Tonight, at 8 PM PT To Listen Live, Click here, on Channel 2: Live Call in number: 1-818-602-4929 June 14, 2011 Tonight live at 8PM PT: CA Assemblyman... -
Wisconsin Pension Lie Exposed
Posted on March 2, 2011 | 32 Comments. . . Given the effort by the Governor of Wisconsin to dismantle the state employee union collective bargaining rights, a story that appeared in the well-respected Forbes magazine web... -
Vallejo Pension / Bankruptcy Strategy FAILS.
Posted on December 26, 2010 | 9 Comments. . . While the advocates for cutting or even eliminating public employee pensions salivated like Pavlov’s dog over the news in 2008 that the City of Vallejo, California had... -
Did you know that Lou Correa was principal co-author of 3%@ 50 pension?
Posted on July 10, 2010 | 23 CommentsHow many of us remember SB 400 introduced in the California Legislature by Senator Ortiz? That 1999 Bill, providing 3%@50 pension benefits for public safety unions, was Chaptered by the... -
Action on the Public Pension Front
Posted on June 18, 2010 | No CommentsAs the economy has tanked public attention has focused more and more on government. It seems we want government to bail us out, provide welfare payments disguised as “unemployment benefits”,... -
Did Meg Whitman kill the effort to restrain public pensions?
Posted on February 28, 2010 | 2 CommentsA lot of gnashing of teeth, anger and anguish about the extent and cost of pension benefits for government workers has been occurring the last year or so. “Excessive”, “unsustainable”... -
Over 500 County Retirees in $100K Club
Posted on January 20, 2010 | 2 CommentsOrange County workers are living large in their retirement The Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS) has posted on its web site the payroll of its retiree members, showing the... -
California pension reform group files two new ballot initiatives
Posted on November 6, 2009 | 4 CommentsPRESS RELEASE From the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE California pension reform group files two new ballot initiatives Yesterday (11/5) the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility (CFFR)... -
Taxpayers Well Served by Public Sector Double Dippers
Posted on October 14, 2009 | 6 CommentsTwo scoops are better than one, at least if you are a public employee… Those whipping up public angst about the pay, benefits and pensions government employees receive are on... -
Supervisors seek to hamper retirees’ due process legal rights
Posted on September 18, 2009 | 2 CommentsAs has been reported in the press and on this blog the Retired Employees Association of Orange County (REAOC) is suing the County of Orange and its Board of... -
Public pension info. is available to the media
Posted on September 1, 2009 | 1 CommentThe media is looking into public pensions In a post on August 30 titled “Pension Wars Continue” I attempted to describe the issues that seem to surround public sector pensions...
