Oregon Gov. Kate Brown's task force on paying down the state's big public pension debt is looking at presenting the state's 900 governmental agencies with a deal. If those agencies step up their ...

Oregon's pension system owes billions of dollars more to retirees than it has, and the last major attempt to fix the problem was shot down in courts. (Milliman, Oregon PERS) Oregon PERS returns: Gov.

SALEM, Ore. -- Costs for the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System will rise by billions over the next six years, according to actuarial calculations made for the pension system. Those costs will ...

Oregon lawmakers this week said they will debate PERS, the massively underfunded pension system for public workers, giving an early victory to business leaders who say fixing the system is key to ...

Some of my readers have been getting letters asking them where they live. That can be an unnerving question and probably even more so when it's their retirement agency doing the asking. Don't worry, ...

Timothy Iltz probably knows more about the financial health of local governments in Oregon than anyone else. Iltz is a portfolio manager and municipal bond credit analyst for the Aquila Tax-Free Trust ...

How many ways can you scribble Massachusetts Avenue? The major Boston thoroughfare reportedly was recorded under 15 different names in one clothing company's database. Such information duplication is ...