PERA doesn’t trust CO Treasurer, voters

by Amy Oliver | 2:32 pm, September 21, 2011

Colorado’s Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) told statutory board member State Treasurer Walker Stapleton that it would not release information such as annual benefits, age of retirement, former job and zip code of the top 20 percent of pension recipients to him. In an interview with Amy Oliver on News Talk 1310 KFKA, Stapleton said [...]

Transparency propaganda

by Amy Oliver | 9:44 pm, March 8, 2010

Transparency: quality or state of being clear, transparent; also frank, candid, free from deceit.
COST believes that most Coloradans have come to understand transparency in government as detailed expenditure and revenue information.
With those definitions in mind, it is laughable that the Colorado State Treasurer’s Office called its latest interactive endeavor “Tax Tracks” a transparency Web site.  The [...]

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