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Truthout: Illinois Plutocrats Manipulate State Bond Ratings to Escape Public Pension Contracts, Lower Their Tax Burden.
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The Illinois Legislature is currently debating potential reform of its public pension systems. Like Colorado, Illinois has traditionally failed to pay its public pension bills. Like many Colorado politicians, many Illinois politicians are...
Is the Alternatives Gig Up?
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Frederick Reese of MintPress News reports, Public Pension Funds Making Alternative Or Reckless Investments?: Public pension systems are collapsing across the country. In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is under growing pressure to find a way to mitigate...
The Hedge Fund That Ate Chicago
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Why does a millionaire mayor and a billionaire hedge fund CEO team up to attack public pensions? Because that's where the money is. There's a battle royale raging in Chicago. It pits hedge funds, the Chicago financial exchanges, real estate interests...
Sold Out Futures: Public Employee Pensions, Census of Governments Data
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All across the country, despite an economy that has been officially out of recession for half a decade and record stock prices, Americans are being subjected to one round of state and local government tax increases and/or public service and benefit cuts...
Looting the Pension Funds
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Looting the Pension Funds All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers By Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone September 26, 2013 In the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring...

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Eight-year-old Indiana boy takes initiative to save turtles crossing the road

Just about a week after the Fourth of July, Michelle Wietbrock from West Lafayette, Indiana, pulled over the family vehicle so that her sons, Jack and Teddy, could help a small turtle make its way from the middle of Cherry Lane to the side of the road...
Canadian woman wards off cougar with Metallica—gets call from James Hetfield

A Vancouver Island woman scared off a threatening cougar by playing Metallica on her phone. Later she was given the opportunity to thank the band when frontman James Hetfield contacted her to talk about the incident. In late July, Dee Gallant was walking...
Rosie the Riveters recall WWII days at Flex Studios summer dance camp

In a room filled with denim and red polka-dot scarves, a new generation of girls learned about the history of U.S. female empowerment. The girls, ages 3 to 12, participated in a week-long Flex Visionaries Camp with a Rosie the Riveter-inspired theme...
Five-year-old girl rescued from Dublin beach by vacationing Virginians

A five-year-old girl was rescued on Portmarnock beach in Ireland July 22, after being swept out to sea with a floaty. Her Virginian rescuers were Walter Butler, 21, twin brothers Eoghan and Declan Butler, 18, and their brother-in-law Alex Thomson, 2...
Woman saves her twins after starting the abortion process

A woman from North Carolina, who had just started the procedure of a chemical abortion, had a sudden change of heart that saved the life of her babies. When she was six weeks pregnant, she entered a Preferred Women’s Health Center, an abortion center...

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Will Koenig honored his mother, Kara Larson, by giving to the community what she gave to him: the ability to join together to partake in America’s greatest pastime, baseball. "She also kind of made su...
Captain America | The Oregon Optimist

The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots were not the only ones facing off during last week’s Super Bowl game—actors Chris Pratt (“Starlord” in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy) and Chris Evans ...

Oregon shows its colors: best places to view changing fall leaves | The Oregon Optimist

Ore.– Oregonians know Boston’s got nothing on the Pacific Northwest’s vivid fall foliage. Make time this month to peruse the state’s most colorful locales. The Columbia River Gorge Fodor’s Travel name...