Former Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is leading a new initiative drive that would ask voters to reduce some public employee retirement benefits to help reduce the costs of the financially troubled ...

Dirk VanderHart / OPB On the campaign trail, Gov. Kate Brown and state Rep. Knute Buehler have settled into a predictable routine when asked about Oregon’s troubled public pension system, PERS.

When I read the amount of Mike Bellotti's PERS retirement pay, no question I gasped at the amounts paid to this one man for his job at the U of O, for twenty-one years work. It leaves no doubt that no ...