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Bluegrass Beacon: Pension dispute lacks facts, not funding

Bluegrass Beacon, PensionsJim WatersMarch 9, 2018Life expectancy, Public Pension Reform, Sen- Joe Bowen, Senate Bill 1, Senate President Robert Stivers, TRSComment

Bluegrass Beacon - Fighting open-meetings offenses: Short-term pain, long-term gain

Bluegrass Beacon, Transparency and Accou...Jim WatersJanuary 18, 2018House v BIPPS, Open Meetings Act, Public Pension ReformComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Keep making the General Assembly great again

Bluegrass Beacon, PensionsJim WatersDecember 15, 20172017 General Assembly, Public Pension Reform, special sessionComment

News Release: AG supports Center for Open Government’s claim that House’s secret meeting violated Open Meetings Act

Center for Open Govern..., Transparency and Accou...Jim WatersNovember 6, 2017Attorney General opinion, Caucus meetings, House of Representatives, Open Meetings Act, Public Pension ReformComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Pension plan cools, but freeze still needed

Bluegrass Beacon, PensionsJim WatersOctober 27, 2017Defined benefit, defined contribution, Harry Moberly, Legislative pensions, Public Pension Reform Comments

Bluegrass Beacon: Legislators boost, judge busts liberty

Center for Open Govern..., Legal, Taxes, Transparency and Accou..., PensionsJim WatersSeptember 10, 2017Amish farmer Sam Girod, Eric Conn, FDA overregulation, Federal Judge Danny Reeves, JCPS Board open meetings case, Public Pension Reform, Tax refComment

Bluegrass Beacon -- Change the culture of secrecy: Pledge transparency

Transparency and Accou..., PensionsJim WatersOctober 30, 2016House State Government Committee, KERS, Legislative Pension Transparency Pledge, Public Pension Reform, Rep- Jeff Taylor, S&P Global Ratings, Walker ThomasComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Teachers’ pensions and their sick-day pay

PensionsJim WatersJune 12, 2016JCPS teachers' salaries, KTRS, Public Pension Reform, Unused sick daysComment

Lowell D. Reese: A true Kentucky hero

Transparency and Accou..., PensionsJim WatersApril 19, 2016Future Shock, Kentucky Roll Call, lowell reese, Public Pension Reform Comments

Bluegrass Beacon - Teachers and their pensions: Doing the math

PensionsJim WatersApril 18, 2016Bluegrass Beacon, Daviess Co- Certified Salary Schedule, KTRS, Public Pension Reform, Sick days, Total service credit Comment

Bluegrass Beacon: Pension Grinch likely to pilfer more from taxpayers

Taxes, PensionsJim WatersDecember 6, 2015Bill Thielen, John Cheves, Kentucky Roll Call, KERS, KRS, Lexington Herald-Leader, lowell reese, Medicaid funding, Public Pension Reform, Tax increase Comment

Quote of the Day: Is Kentucky bankrupt?

Transparency and Accou..., PensionsJuly 2, 2014Public Pension Reform, Public Pensions, Reduce Government SpendingComment

More secrecy: Kentucky's public pension system refuses to shine the light on its investment practices

Transparency and Accou..., PensionsJune 16, 2014Public Pension Reform, Public Pensions, TransparencyComment

Bluegrass Beacon: ‘Taxpayer-eaters’ meet ‘self-serving-politician-eaters’

Reduce Government Spen...May 27, 2014D-Morehead, Future Shock, House Bill 299 (2005), Kentucky Roll Call, Legislative pensions, lowell reese, Public Pension Reform, Sen- Walter BlevinsComment

Not-so-fun-facts about Kentucky's teachers' pension plans

Education, Increase Free MarketsJim WatersSeptember 6, 2013Public Pension ReformComment

Kentucky more than $71 billion in the hole thanks to unfunded public pension liabilities

News, Reduce Government Spen...Jim WatersSeptember 3, 2013Public Pension ReformComment

Bluegrass Institute Board of Scholars to explain public pension reform, August 26

Increase Free MarketsJim WatersAugust 21, 2013Public Pension ReformComment

New ALEC report mirrors Bluegrass Institute's "Future Shock"

Smaller GovernmentJim WatersAugust 15, 2013Public Pension ReformComment

Quote of the day: Pension payments squeeze local communities

Reduce Government Spen...Jim WatersJuly 24, 2013Kentucky Tonight, Public Pension ReformComment

Transparency can be a simple process

Transparency and Accou...Jim WatersJuly 23, 2013Future Shock, Pioneer Institute, Public Pension Reform, TransparencyComment