Re: “Talks on budget for 2025 stall — Appointees fail to overcome their differences over how agency approaches spending,” Sept. 12 Metro & Business story. In her story, Amber Gaudet quoted the Irving ...

In a recent letter to the editor, Dayle Lipman complained about the cost of government employee retirement. Most of these employees went to work for their departments fully knowing in advance what ...

Having lived in our state for some 55 years, I have noticed one marked characteristic that separates our current state workforce from the earlier one having predictable retirement benefits. Under the ...

Sara Herschander’s recent article, “Nonprofit Employees Often Can’t Afford Basics, New Report Finds” (September 10), did a good job of highlighting the financial hardships so many nonprofit workers ...

On June 25, 2019, during the first Trump administration, a memorandum was issued providing guidance for administering the Temporary Early Retirement Authority, which had been extended to Dec. 31, 2025 ...

Yes, one more letter about Iris Avenue. This one comes from someone with a lifelong background as a teacher. More about that in a moment. My proposal for Iris is to pretty much leave almost well ...

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To the editor: The United States was only able to send three people over to Myanmar to help with the 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Boy, is that sad. Making America great again? Does that include the $5 ...

The actions of the Western New Mexico University board of regents to reward a president who so egregiously betrayed the public trust feel like a slap in the face to those of us who did our jobs and ...

The president and the Republican Congress are taking away everything the Middle Class has. Lifelong contributions to 401(k)s are already disappearing due to Trump’s stock market crash. Our ...

I find it profoundly disturbing that the U.S. Supreme Court and South Carolina’s Legislature fail to recognize the link between women’s access to preventive health care — including family planning and ...

Senate President Ron Kouchi, top, presides over proceedings during the final day of the 2025 Hawaii legislative sessions inside the Senate chamber at the state Capitol on May 2. The Honolulu ...