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Opinion  |  Michael Ramirez  • 
May 28, 2023

Mind of Ramirez: The Gift of Fallen Soldiers

Michael Ramirez reminds us that Memorial Day is more than a day off work, or hot dogs on a grill. Memorial Day is remembering that our freedom was bought at a tremendous price.
Opinion  |  Bill Crawford  • 
May 28, 2023

PEER report on PERS more bold than usual

As found by the Barbour commission, PERS became structurally unsound in 2002 when the Legislature completed raising benefits without providing a funding mechanism. Incorrect estimates of retiree numbers, active employees, salary increases, inflation, and the fixed COLA have conflated the problem. The funding gap has now exceeded $20 billion. Simply pecking at it with rate increases won’t fix it.