Hopes for PERS reform tempered by experience
We want to believe there’s hope for real PERS reform by the 2013 Legislature, as expressed in the lead of this week’s report by NW Watchdog, a new online player in political journalism:“The burden now being placed on schools, cities and other public agencies to deal with a gaping budget hole in the state’s Public Employees Retirement System might be just what Oregonians need ...