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by Steve Greenhut
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Public Pensions News last updated September 25 12:02am PST
The complete text of these articles was e-mailed to subscribers.September 25th, 2016
- WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT: The Hidden Reason for Local Tax Increases: Pensions (column - Dan Walters / Ventura County Star)
- WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT: Big Surge in California's Spending on Public Pensions+OPEB and Medi-Cal (David Crane / Medium.com)
September 24th, 2016
- WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT: California's Pension Mess Can’t Go On; That’s No Reason to Ignore It (column - Steven Greenhut / Orange County Register)
- WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT: California Cities Are Bailing Out Their Pensions With Tax Hikes (editorial - Press-Enterprise)
September 23rd, 2016
- California Pension Tension Builds as Liability Balloons (Sandy Wells / KABC News)
- Reporter Jack Dolan Talks About His LA Times' Piece on California's Fat Public Pensions Costing You Billions (Doug McIntyre / KABC Talk Radio)
- Reactions to That New York Times Article on CalPERS: Let's Hear From Everybody! (blog - Mary Pat Campbell / STUMP)
- How the Dot-Com Bubble Set Up California’s Public Employee Pension Crisis (Ashley Gross / Capital Public Radio)
- Public Pension Shortfalls Could Be 4X to 7X Greater Than Reported (Daniel Amerman / Seeking Alpha)
- Reformed Public Pensions Can Still Be Generous (Wayne Windegarden / EfficientGov)
- 4 Things to Know About LAUSD’s Pension Obligations for Its Teachers and Other Staff (Sarah Favot / LA School Report)
- Yuba City Strike Magnified Tension Over California's School Funding Formula (John Fensterwald / EdSource)
- Unpacking the Public Pension 'Crisis': Is Your State at Risk? (Evan Powers / Seeking Alpha)
- Leaders Need to Lead on Oregon’s Public Employee Pension Fund (editorial - Bend Bulletin)
- Oregon's Public Employees' Retirement System: It's Offensive That Active Members Contribute Nothing (letters - The Oregonian)
- Experts Weigh in on Houston Mayor’s Pension Proposal (blog - Leah Binkovitz / Kinder Institute for Urban Research)
- South Carolina State Treasurer Says Pension Debt Threatens to 'Swallow Us Whole' (Adam Benson / Index-Journal)
- Fix What Ails South Carolina's Public Pension Plan (editorial - Post and Courier)
- UNSUSTAINABLE: New York City Has More Retired Cops Collecting Pensions Than Active Cops on the Streets (op-ed - Nicole Gelinas / New York Post)
- UNSUSTAINABLE: Chicago Has More Retired Cops Collecting Pensions Than Active Cops on the Streets (Nancy Mathieson / WirePoints Illinois)
September 22nd, 2016
- California Watch: Suddenly, a Shifting Pension Paradigm? (Steven Greenhut / The American Spectator)
- Tsunami of Local Taxes Headed for California’s Taxpayers (Joel Fox / Fox & Hounds)
- Public Pension Funds Are Being Overly Optimistic (column - Megan McArdle / Chicago Tribune)
- GOLDEN OLDIE: Pension Funds Should Get Real on Rate of Return (column - Steven Greenhut / Orange County Register)
- San Francisco Sues Its Retirement Board (Dave Tartre / Courthouse News Service)
- SEIU to Santa Cruz County: We Need Higher Pay (Jondi Gumz / Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Santa Barbara, California Reports Pension Expenses (Tyler Hayden / Santa Barbara Independent)
- Dallas' Broken Police Pension Threatens Streets, Parks Promised in 2017 Bond Package (column - Robert Wilonsky / Dallas Morning News)
- Alternative Investments Gone Wrong: The Story of the Dallas Police Pension Plan (Charles Sizemore / Forbes)
- Illinois' Pension Prospects? (Amanda Vinicky / NPR Illinois)
- Chicago Municipal Pension Proposal Would Worsen Unfairness for New Hires (Mark Glennon / WirePoints Illinois)
- Madison County Board Members Agree to Opt Out of Illinois Pension Fund (Kelsey Landis / The Telegraph)
- 'This Is Becoming a Moral Issue': Officials Face Truth Behind Oregon's Soaring Pension Costs (Ted Sickinger / The Oregonian)
September 21st, 2016
- CalPERS Forecasts Benefits Paid to Retirees Will Outpace Projected Income by $9.2 Billion in 15 Years (Robin Respaut / Reuters)
- CalPERS May Need to Lower Investment Hopes Soon, Thus Increasing the Cost to Taxpayers (John Myers / Los Angeles Times)
- CalSTRS Probably Will Miss 7.5% Return Target for Third Year (John Gittelsohn / Bloomberg)
- Average Costa Mesa Firefighter Makes Nearly $250,000 Per Year. Why? Pensions. (Ed Ring / UnionWatch)
- California's $74 Billion in Retiree Health Care Benefit Costs Weigh on S&P's View of State (Amanda Albright / Bloomberg Brief Special Edition)
- Cities, States Must Educate Public on Pension Costs Says PensionTsunami.com Founder (Amanda Albright / Bloomberg Brief Special Edition)
- GOLDEN OLDIE: Part 1 - California's Local Cities Saddled With Staggering Pension Debts (Jeramy Gordon / Palo Alto Daily Post)
- GOLDEN OLDIE: Part 2 - Ditching CalPERS Hard, Costly: As Pension Debt Soars, Cities Look for Alternatives (Jeramy Gordon / Palo Alto Daily Post)
- CalSTRS CIO Chris Ailman Discusses Problems Facing Pension Funds (video - Bloomberg)
- California Dreamin' of Ever Closing Their Pension Funding Gap (blog - Mary Pat Campbell / STUMP)
- California's Public Employees' Pension Crisis Began Nearly 20 Years Ago (audio - Ashley Gross / KCVR-FM)
- Misplaced Priorities in California's State Capitol (op-ed - John Moorlach / Orange County Register)
- SEIU Protest Co-Opts San Joaquin County Public Safety Forum, Plunges Meeting Into Chaos (Wes Bowers / Stockton Record)
- Billionaire Rescues Michigan City With Cash to End Fiscal Plight (Amanda Albright / Bloomberg)
- Debt and Death Bind Chicago; Paying for Pension Promises Competes With Calls for More Cops (Tim Jones & Elizabeth Campbell / Bloomberg)
- Chicago Council Approves Water-Sewer Tax to Save Pension Fund (Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun-Times)
- Illinois House Panel Reviews Chicago Pension Fix (Andrew Maloney / Chicago Daily Law Bulletin)
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