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Girard Miller

Girard Miller

Finance Columnist

Girard Miller is the finance columnist for Governing. He is a retired investment and public finance professional and the author of “Enlightened Public Finance” (2019). Miller brings 30 years of experience in public finance and investments as a former Governmental Accounting Standards Board member and ICMA Retirement Corp. president.

Miller writes Governing's bi-weekly newsletter on public finance, which you can sign up for here.

He can be reached at millergirard@yahoo.com. 

Pay cuts for public officials who spend like grasshoppers?
A better voluntary savings vehicle for retiree health coverage
Abuses of overtime in pension calculations
Reform -- don't destroy -- public retirement systems.
A profitable role in curing the toxic asset problem?
State and municipal deferred-compensation plans are at risk from the insurance-industry tumult. It's time for some due diligence.
Timely congressional action could double the infrastructure stimulus.
How to ensure that retiree health coverage is ample, available and affordable.