Today on the Rick Smith Show: Auditor General Talks Pension Crisis; Union Workers are Happier; Anti-Worker Legislation On Its Way; and the Need to Kill TPP Here’s today’s line up for the Rick Smith Show: PA Auditor General Eugene DePasquale talks about the growing problem with Municipal pension and the need for the General Assembly to…
Did DeSmog’s Coverage of Coal Baron Bob Murray v. Fracker Aubrey McClendon Lawsuit Lead To Sealing of Court Records?
Did DeSmog’s Coverage of Coal Baron Bob Murray v. Fracker Aubrey McClendon Lawsuit Lead To Sealing of Court Records? Editor’s Note: This is Steve Horn’s latest piece that originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love – visit their site for some of the best research debunking misinformation about climate science…
Queen City Conservatives: How The Tafts Can Teach The GOP To Be Functional Again
Editor’s Note: Another awesome post from the wonderful world of Virally Suppressed: Muckraking for the Modern World out of Cincinnati, OH. This article was originally posted by Drew Gibson on Virally Suppressed. After you read this, head on over to Virally Suppressed and let Drew know that Raging Chicken Press sent you! And, while you’re at it, follow Virally Suppressed…
State’s Poorest Pay 2 to 3 Times More in State Income Taxes Than State’s Richest
State’s Poorest Pay 2 to 3 Times More in State Income Taxes Than State’s Richest During the gubernatorial campaign, incoming governor Tom Wolf emphasized that the state’s richest need to pay fair share in state income taxes. In June, Wolf said, “I’m looking at it from the point of view of fairness. I think people like me…
Edward W. Brooke & The Importance of Moderate Republicans in American Politics
Editor’s Note: Another awesome post from the wonderful world of Virally Suppressed: Muckraking for the Modern World out of Cincinnati, OH. This article was originally posted by Drew Gibson on Virally Suppressed. After you read this, head on over to Virally Suppressed and let Drew know that Raging Chicken Press sent you! And, while you’re at it, follow Virally Suppressed…
Sean Kitchen, Rick Smith Show Capital Correspondent on Auditor General’s Press Conference | January 14, 2015 Sean Kitchen, Rick Smith Show Capital correspondent, on today’s Auditor General Press Conference. What? Another pension crisis looming?
Rick Smith Interviews Tefere Gebre, Executive VP of the AFL-CIO | January 14, 2015 Tefere Gebre, Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO joins Rick to talk about this weekend’s…
Rick Smith Interviews Fred McLuckie, Director of Teamsters Dept. of Federal Legislation and Regulation | January 14, 2015 Fred McLuckie, Director of Teamsters Dept. Of Federal Legislation and Regulation talks about the opening of the Mexican border allowing Mexican truck drivers access to US Highways and what it means for the motoring public.
Rick Smith Interviews Irwin Aronson | January 14, 2015 Irwin Aronson, Labor attorney and show regular joins Rick to talk about some of the out the door moves by exiting Governor Tom Corbett and what these moves mean for incoming Governor-elect Tom Wolf.
Auditor General: Pennsylvania Faces $7.7 Billion Underfunded Municipal Pension Liability
Auditor General: Pennsylvania Faces $7.7 Billion Underfunded Municipal Pension Liability There is a growing pension crisis in Pennsylvania and it is not the statewide pension crisis that we were accustomed to hearing about over the past two years. At a capitol press conference earlier this afternoon, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced that the underfunded municipal pension liability…
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