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Calpers After Scandal Embraces Risk for Pensioners Facing $240 Billion Gap

Joe Dear is giving a pep talk to more than two dozen colleagues at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. As Dear paces before his people on this July afternoon in Sacramento, he implores them to shake off the funk of the pension fund’s recent troubles.

Should You Buy a House Now?

Recently, we have had a number of queries about real estate. And no wonder. For starters, real estate prices have come down. Plus, in an environment with next to zero interest rates, the idea of possibly picking up some income-producing property on the cheap holds a certain appeal to some.

2008 assault arrest

A 20-year-old man accused of helping two other men assault and threaten to kill a man almost two years ago was arrested Friday evening on a municipal court warrant.Joseph Gilbert Bentancourt, 1637 N. Fairfield St., Amarillo, was charged with unlawful...

How to Wring More From Your Short-Term Assets

These funds can form Part 2 of a two-part emergency fund.

Rev. Steven McKeown's paper defending use of state money to help restore Bald Knob Cross

Citing North American history dating to Christopher Columbus' 1492 venture to the New World, Bald Knob Cross board president Rev. Steven McKeown released a paper documenting his belief that state funds used in the monument's renovation don't violate church-state separation statutes. Click to read the full writing.