How bad is the Public Employee Retirement System's (PERS) unfunded liability? Pretty bad when a long time union champion, former AFL-CIO Oregon President Tim Nesbitt writes an OPED about how this problem is a political problem for Democrat Progressives or the "Regressives" as I call them. The problem he is obliquely referring to is the reality that eventually, the middle class are going to be forced to pay higher taxes to pay for the lavish retirement benefits of public emplo

It is a welcome change to give kudos to a group of elected government officials when they get it right, policy wise anyway. Such is the case with the Lane County Commission who has begun a program of buying out high cost senior county employees into retirement and reaping big cost savings down the road. This story also articulates how the program will stay on target with its savings goals and puts in place employee fiendly options like Health Savings Accounts while lowering o