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.

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.

By Frank Keegan – Even using their numbers and optimistic recommendations, a public pension study released this week by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence proves the hopeless magnitude of this catastrophe that SLGE admits will require extorting at least $50 trillion more out of citizens over the next 30 years.

By FRANK KEEGAN – Here’s the deal for National Association of State Retirement Administrators who declared Wednesday that everything is just fine with state pensions: Put your houses on the line instead of taxpayers’. Your own words prove your “facts” lie.

BY GREG WILES — Hawaii is one of the worst four states in the nation when it comes to debt and pension burden, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.