Total incentive pay at 3 TX agencies topped $9 million in 2011
Curt W. Olson l Texas Budget Source
AUSTIN — The Teacher Retirement System of Texas doled out $6.1 million of $9 million in incentive compensation, which included the Employees Retirement System of Texas and the Permanent School Fund at the Texas Education Agency.
The three state agencies control about $160 billion in assets for the two pension [...]
Annexation, Cherokee gaming start new NC legislative session
By North Carolina Civitas
RALEIGH — The state Senate kicked off the short session of the North Carolina General Assembly with quick action on annexation and live gambling on the Cherokee Nation.
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By Anthony Brino | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave Illinois $32.7 million to set up a health insurance exchange — even as legislative efforts to do so were abandoned amid uncertainty about the national health-care law’s future.
OH repeals voter reform, confusion remains
By Ron Lederman | Ohio Watchdog
COLUMBUS — Wanting to keep the issue from being decided by voters, Ohio Gov. John Kasich this week signed a bill to repeal an elections reform law he signed less than a year ago.
Democrats, who opposed the original changes made by the Republican-led Legislature and signed July 1 by Kasich, say they will continue to [...]
Former PA school nears sale after three years
Seminary looking into purchase
By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — For the past three years, Pennsylvania’s tried in vain to sell the 180-acre, 70-building complex known as the Scotland School for Veterans’ Children.
Each year, the state's sunk as much as $2 million into maintaining the vacant structure, valued at $5 million.
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