News Clips for February 18, 2014
NCPERS News
NCPERS Video Blog: PBS and the Arnold Foundation
In this week'd video blog, Executive Director Hank Kim discusses the recent investigative reporting by David Sirota exposing PBS' partnership with the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and PBS' 'Pension Peril' series.
NCPERS Legislative Conference: Robert Klausner & the Detroit Bankrupcy Case
Robert Klausner, from Klausner Kaufman Jensen & Levinson discussed the Legal Implications of and the Next Steps for Detroit's Bankruptcy at the 2014 NCPERS Legislative Conference.
NCPERS Legislative Conference: Steve Kreisberg, from AFSCME & Illinois
Steve Kreisberg, Director of Collective Bargaining, from AFSCME, discusses the Illinois case study at the NCPERS 2014 Legislative Conference.
NCPERS Legislative Conference: NCPERS Awards Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler the Legislator of the Year
At the 2014 NCPERS Legislative Conference, Executive Director, Hank Kim and NCPERS President, Mel Aaronson, presented Oregon Treasurer, Ted Wheeler with the Legislator of the Year Award. Wheeler addressed the conference.
National News
The Wolf of Sesame Street: Revealing the secret corruption inside PBS's news division
Pando has exclusively confirmed that "The Pension Peril" is secretly funded by former Enron trader John Arnold, a billionaire political powerbroker who is actively trying to shape the very pension policy that the series claims to be dispassionately covering
Pension politics
David Sirota has a very important scoop today: the PBS series "Pension Peril" has secretly* been funded by John Arnold, a billionaire powerbroker with an aggressively anti-pensions political agenda.
Why won't PBS release details of its $3.5m deal with a billionaire? Here's a possible answer.
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