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Pension reformers warn of looming breaking point, cite governments' 'actuarial bullshit' You might call it the Big Little Bang. On Nov. 17, the assembly for the smallest state in the Union voted by a landslide to take some pension benefits away from all of its public employees and 21,000 retirees. Rhode Island...

Big-gun lawyers handle Texas Windstorm Insurance Association's transparency questions; two firms raked in $545K in the past year The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has shelled out more than half-a-million dollars to two law firms in the past year to handle a swarm of public records requests and its own questions on holding open meetings, records...

'Toothless,' secretive Texas Ethics Commission fails the public As it heads into a state performance review that could determine its future, Craig McDonald is worried legislative sentiment is growing to gut the Texas Ethics Commission. The commission is not a particularly sympathetic...

Expansion of managed care for Medicaid patients coming to Rio Grande Valley. Will Texas see the expected $300 million savings? Dr. William H. Torkildsen’s workdays are 12 hours or more, seeing 15 to 25 patients every day at his three rural clinics at the southern tip of Texas. Torkildsen’s views of health care in the Rio Grande Valley could...