September 24, 2014

What's happening

Cianci leads in race for Providence mayor

The Washington Post announced large cuts in retirement benefits on Tuesday, declaring that it would eliminate future retirement medical benefits and freeze defined-benefit pensions for nonunion employees. The company also said that in negotiations that started Tuesday, it will seek to impose the same conditions on employees covered by the union — one of the first indications of how The Post’s new owner, Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, will manage relations with the staff of the news organization.

From Richard Brenneman:

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- Today, someone making $10 million a year contributes the same amount into Social Security as someone making $117,000.

The Oregon Green Party gubernatorial nominee, Jason Levin, crashed a gubernatorial debate to which only the Democratic and Republican nominees had been invited. See this story in the Oregonian. Levin entered the debate near the midpoint and was allowed to continue to participate.


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