"People don't want to work for an organization that's run by a bunch of crooks." Giving Employees What They Want: The Returns Are Huge David Sirota, co-author...
"David Walker called the program a `demographic tsunami' " St. Petersburg Times Bush steers around furor over drug plan STEPHEN NOHLGREN Dec 22, 2005. pg. 1.A ...
"Turns out, it's another of those sweetheart deals Congress has cut for itself over the years." Yakima Herald-Republic Stop special treatment for cons in...
"Now corporate profits are being wrung in large part from cost cutting like reductions to worker health care and retirement..." New York Times Another Marie...
"Spent nuclear fuel is stored at each of the 103 reactors in the U.S." Funds for Nuclear Reprocessing Set Off Debate By PATRICIA TOWNSEND Source: Milwaukee...
Financial Times Executive pay to be new year's hot topic Investors plan to make executive pay the number one issue at companies' annual meetings this spring. ...
Houston Business Journal – Wednesday Former Dynegy exec awaits re-sentencing Jamie Olis, the former Dynegy Inc. executive whose 24-year prison sentence for...
MarketWatch Merrill sees more utilities gains in '06 By Jim Jelter, Jan. 4, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Merrill Lynch, sizing up the 2006 equities...
"There is also a proposal to charge a water-user fee to help manage the river." Stakeholders work on new water deal By: Shawn Flynn, News 14 Carolina Duke...
IBM to freeze $48B pension plan in 2008 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer Thursday, January 5, 2006 BOSTON (AP) - Furthering corporate America's move...
Data on GOP Donation to U.S. Family Network Demanded Prosecutor Broadens DeLay Inquiry By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 6,...
"This is another corporation backing out of its promises" IBM to Freeze Pension Program in '08 By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ, CHARLES FORELLE and THEO FRANCIS Staff...
Tougher penalty urged for ethics breaches The News & Observer Lottery scandal prompts review Dan Kane, The executive director of the state Board of Ethics...
"The result was the largest financial catastrophe in the history of San Diego" New York Times Five Officials in San Diego Are Indicted Over Pensions By JOHN M....
"Whistleblowers reported new problems with some of those plans." KVBC, Las Vegas Work on Yucca Project on hold Jan 6, 2006 Work on certain parts of the Yucca...
"Pensions are legal obligations" Pension crisis could hit balance sheets ELLEN SIMON Associated Press Sat, Jan. 07, 2006 NEW YORK - The pension system is...
"The mine should have simply been closed" Mining offenses punished lightly Accident puts lens on enforcement Joby Warrick, The Washington Post Two winters ago,...
"He touched so many established good people and brought out the bad in them" Abramoff used area foundation as conduit for money By David Postman and Hal...
"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act gives them wider powers to go after those officers." New York Times January 9, 2006 Editorial Honing the Proper Punishment The...
SEC weighs tougher disclosure rules on top officials' compensation Execs' pay on display? MARCY GORDON Associated Press Companies would have to disclose far...
"…workers at Duke Energy complained in 1999 when their traditional pension plans changed over to cash-balance programs." The Charlotte Observer Is your...
Duke Energy now sees pretax gain of $380M from asset sale (DUK) By Carla Mozee SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) expects a pretax gain of...
Letter to consumer advocate prompted by outages after ice storm S.C. lawmaker wants Duke Power investigated Associated Press GREENVILLE - An Upstate lawmaker...
"There is no legal barrier to freezing a pension unless it is prohibited by a union contract." Forecast: More pension freezes By Ellen E. Schultz, Charles...
A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP SEC Opens Formal Probe Of IBM Options Disclosure January 12, 2006 5:14 p.m. The Securities & Exchange Commission has...
"The pension wars will inevitably include Congress" America's pension time bomb Commentary: Workers, employers, taxpayers, governments. Meet the key players in...
"Now is not the time to ignore the sea change that's taking place with company pensions." Houston Chronicle Oblivious on pension issues? Better wake up Jan....
"I'm a dead man walking, and they want to take my pension from my wife and kids" Pension fears spill over Kildee, Stabenow hear pleas from union workers,...
"I bet somebody is making money off this, but I don't think it's customers" Associated Press Consumer advocates object to Duke-Cinergy merger LISA CORNWELL ...