It's time to defuse the public pension time bomb Across the states, America’s public employee pension plans are a ticking, insolvent time bomb. “For most states,” the Pew State Fiscal Health Project said in July 2022, “unfunded pension liabilities ... 05/4/2024 - 9:11 am | View Link
Why Columbia's fire pension led the chief to retire after just 18 months The city's deferred retirement program is at the heart of why Clayton Farr Jr. left his job so soon after being promoted. 05/4/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Police and firefighter pension funds both embrace — and reject — ESG. Here's why. A number of police and firefighter pension funds have embraced ESG investing, even as their largest unions endorsed President Donald Trump and the strategy has become a lightning rod in GOP-led states ... 05/3/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Police, fire departments pitch funding needs as citizen commissions reviews tax options As a citizen commission reviews sales tax options, Springfield police, fire and public works shared their needs and wish lists. 04/30/2024 - 9:55 pm | View Link
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After it emerged recently that Gov. Kristi Noem recounts a graphic, disturbing story in her forthcoming book about killing her puppy with a gun, the Republican from South Dakota defended the violence as a “tough decision” she had to make. The dog, she wrote, had attacked some chickens.
“I talk about it because what I’m tired of in this country is politicians who pretend to be something that they’re not,” Noem said on CBS’s Face the Nation today.
That tough talk aside, Noem apparently is not immune to such posing: It has now also emerged that she falsely claimed in her book to have met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press)
WILMINGTON, N. C. (AP) — This North Carolina voter is nervous.
Will Rikard, a 49-year-old father of two, was among several hundred Democrats who stood and cheered for Joe Biden as the first-term president delivered a fiery speech recently about the billions of dollars he has delivered to protect the state’s drinking water.
But afterward, the Wilmington resident acknowledged he is worried about Biden’s political standing in the looming rematch with former Republican President Donald Trump.
“There’s not enough energy,” Rikard said of Biden’s coalition.
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According to a whistleblower, Pentagon personnel were complicit in ensuring that the January 6 protests were out of control. This is court-martial stuff.