Showing posts with label pensions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pensions. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Austin should freeze police hiring until pension problem resolved

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Since the local press has ignored the topic, let's delve a bit deeper into the pension crisis at the Austin Police Department. As Grits ...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

Austin police pension obligations will swamp city budget if City Council doesn't change course

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One of the most important, least-covered stories in the Texas criminal-justice arena must be the failure of Texas municipalities to fund pol...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

Interview: Ron DeLord on the Ferguson Effect, police pensions, and why he considers Saul Alinsky a major influence

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Recently, Grits interviewed Ron DeLord, the founder of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas and a lion of the Texas police uni...
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Friday, January 26, 2018

Reasonably Suspicious Podcast: Why Mein Kampf is okay but The Color Purple is banned at TDCJ

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Check out the January edition of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, covering Texas criminal justice policy and politics. You ...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Reasonably Suspicious: Police unions, collective bargaining, and accountability

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Check out the latest episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast from Just Liberty . You can listen to it here or access it on all the usu...
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Sunday, May 07, 2017

Police accountability bills bottled up by House leadership, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers attention while mine is focused elsewhere: Tragic shooting colors legislative debate...
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Tyler mayor to run B&B for racially profiled black men, and other stories

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Blogging was slow last week but that doesn't mean there weren't quite a few items in the news which merited Grits readers' atten...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Underfunded police pensions plague big Texas cities

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Texas police and fire pensions in the big cities are a mess the legislature is ill-prepared to deal with in the coming 85th session. The cos...
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Monday, November 07, 2016

Houston PD pension mess could spur officer departures. Should we care?

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Houston PD could see more officers retire soon as a result of the proposed pension deal Mayor Sylvester Turner negotiated with the unions, r...
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Monday, October 31, 2016

Police pension bailouts, dreaming of Oklahoma, and other nightmarish scenarios on Halloween

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A few things, while I've got you: Lab delays spur boost in Nueces Co. personal bond use In Corpus Christi, prosecutors have enacted a...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Water outages, unreasonable court fees, pension and forensic follies, and other stories

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In an ongoing effort to clear Grits' browswer tabs, here are a few items which merit readers' attention but may not make it into ind...
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Thursday, December 03, 2015

Texas Voices v. small towns; CLEAT v. Governor, Lawyers v. client, and other stories

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Here are a few short tidbits while your correspondent's attention is focused elsewhere: Texas Voices may litigate to overturn illegal ...
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Thursday, February 06, 2014

Public safety pensions a looming budget issue

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I'm a little late out of the gate on this, but here's an issue most large Texas municipalities will have to struggle with over the n...
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