It’s been apparent for years that America’s underfunded public employee pension system, one of the backbones of blue model governance, will have to face a brutal reckoning at some time or another, but new data suggest that the date of that reckoning may be sooner than anticipated.
A format that favored sharp questions and pithy answers, and emphasized style as well as policy substance, drew in an unprecedentedly large—and young—audience.
Chicago’s police abuse scandal gets an update. That these abuses occurred in a deep blue city in one of the bluest states in the country shouldn’t surprise us.
In June, Blue Cross and Blue Shield asked for an average premium hike of roughly 26 percent (on top of this year’s 13.5 percent increase). Now it is saying that number is too low and it will need a 34.6 increase.
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