Yesterday the Pew Center on the States painted a dismal picture of the pension and retiree healthcare programs operated for State workers. This is bad news for everyone, because as the center’s managing director Susan K. Urahn noted yesterday, these promises will have to be met. That may very well require cuts... 

Yesterday the Pew Center on the States painted a dismal picture of the pension and retiree healthcare programs operated for State workers. This is bad news for everyone, because as the center’s managing director Susan K. Urahn noted yesterday, these promises will have to be met. That may very well require cuts... 

(This item updated Feburary 26, 2010 to include subsequent medal wins.) When Tom Steitz took over as Head Coach for the US Olympic Nordic Combined Skiing Team in 1988, it had just finished dead last that year’s Games. He had little money or athletic talent to work with. It was, as he says “a challenge”. One...