Budget battle begins with PA facing $300M deficit
Higher education likely to be targeted for increasing funding
By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — Higher than anticipated revenue for April leaves Pennsylvania with a smaller deficit heading into the two months when the new state budget will be hashed out.
Read More →KEEGAN: This plan could save municipal, state workers’ pension checks
Hey, young public employees, what are you going to do when your pension checks bounce after you paid in for decades? That is what will happen in many — maybe all — states and municipalities sooner or later if they do not reform right now. If you want to see the future, just look at Illinois. One citizen there did, and came up with a real reform plan that might work.
Read More →COMMENTARY: Vaccination bill gouges parental rights
By Katy Grimes | CalWatchdog
SACRAMENTO — Discussion about the proper role of the Legislature and state government is never more important than when individual liberties and parental rights are under siege. Anytime the Legislature inserts itself into health care issues, individual rights are compromised.
Read More →COMMENTARY: Cheers for domestic partner benefits, jeers for ‘shacking up’
By Kevin Binversie
After debating for nearly 45 minutes, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors voted 13-5, with one abstaining, to approve domestic partner benefits for the county workforce.
Read More →New accounting rules bring pensions to forefront
By Bill McMorris
State and local governments still will have more than two years to delay new accounting standards scheduled to be released Friday.
Those standards should expose billions of dollars in debt now hidden deep in annual financial statements and kept off the books.
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