• Funding Phobias
• BY: Girard Miller   |   July 23, 2009
• States and cities have a lot of reasons for inaction on funding retiree medical benefits. Some of their excuses are pretty flimsy.

• The Empire State's Looming Public Pension Explosion
• BY: Girard Miller   |   July 23, 2009
• Local pension costs may triple in New York State, meaning costs will outrun revenues, even when the recession ends.
• 3 Comments

• Why No Pension Bonds?
• BY: Girard Miller   |   July 16, 2009
• How Build America Bonds have crowded out 'Benefits Bonds.'

• Bargaining for Benefits Reform
• BY: Girard Miller   |   July 9, 2009
• It's time to take a harder line on under-priced "bennies." Here's how.
• 3 Comments

• New Premises for "Pension Prop 13"
• BY: Girard Miller   |   July 9, 2009
• Constitutional curbs for runaway public pension plans
• 10 Comments

• Failing to Fund Retirement Benefits
• BY: Girard Miller   |   June 18, 2009
• The downside of "pay-as-you-go"

• The Value-Added Tax: State and Local Implications
• BY: Girard Miller   |   June 17, 2009
• A threat or an opportunity?
• 1 Comments

• A Fiscal Fix? California's Dreamin'
• BY: Girard Miller   |   June 11, 2009
• Is the Golden State too big to fail?
• 1 Comments

• Time to Drop DROPs
• BY: Girard Miller   |   June 4, 2009
• Alice-in-Wonderland math can't work for Deferred Option Retirement Plans.

• Passing on Our Debts
• BY: Girard Miller   |   June 1, 2009
• GASB is looking at new rules for making sure we pay for services we use.

• Medicare Trumps the 'OPEB Fairy'
• BY: Girard Miller   |   May 21, 2009
• National health care reform can't bail out state and local retiree health plans.

• Build America Bonds Hit the Market
• BY: Girard Miller   |   May 13, 2009
• Are these new municipal bonds silver linings -- or fools' gold?

• The OPEB Acid-test
• BY: Girard Miller   |   May 7, 2009
• Paralysis must yield to analysis -- soon.

• The Pension Bonus Conundrum
• BY: Girard Miller   |   May 7, 2009
• You get what you pay for -- or don't.

• Repairing Pension Plans
• BY: Girard Miller   |   April 23, 2009
• Reform -- don't destroy -- public retirement systems.

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