Tag: pera
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PERA to Pinnacol: $302 million, please
The Public Employees’ Retirement Association has come up with a number for Pinnacol Assurance, the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer of last resort, to buy out its employees and retirees’ share of PERA’s pension. Pinnacol, with the support of Gov. Jared Polis, is hoping to privatize, a deal that would bring $400 million into state…
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EDITORIAL: Debt clouds Colorado’s horizon
Colorado must balance its budget every year by law. It’s one of those fiscal protections for most states that most Americans would like to see imposed on Congress at the federal level, where the national debt has exploded past $38 trillion. Imagine a federal Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, with real spending caps and voter approval…