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Remote Air Traffic Control Towers: A Better Future for America’s Small Airports
Remote towers offer a proven alternative for the provision of air traffic services at low-activity airports.
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Remote Towers Offer Hope for Smaller U.S. Airports
European countries are using remote air traffic control towers to improve and expand tower services.
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Airport Policy and Security News #118
Remote towers: hope for smaller airports
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Pension Reform Will Help Michigan Teachers
Recent pension reform legislation will improve retirement choices for future teachers, increase compensation for some recently hired teachers, and ensure the state will pay every dollar of pensions to teachers.
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Moving Toward a Better Retirement System for Government and Private-Sector Workers
California’s plan to automatically enroll private-sector workers who don’t have retirement plans into a state-run savings account was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year.
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Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Joe Mansky, Case No. 16-1435
Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States
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Pension Reform Newsletter #37 (June 2017 edition)
Michigan's innovative teacher pension reform, Pennsylvania's major pension reform, Houston/Dallas pension reform legislation enacted, and more.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, June 2017
"There has been a growing understanding that school budgets are less about properly populating Excel spreadsheets and more about how to get great outcomes for kids."
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Surface Transportation News #164
Interstate tolling: new support—and old misconceptions
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Time to Get U.S. Air Traffic Control Out of the 1960s
The U.S. air traffic system is the world’s largest, but technologically it lags behind other countries that have implemented digital messaging, GPS flight tracking and newer alternatives to the 1960s-era systems still found in U.S. air traffic facilities.
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Unions Try to Make It Harder for Local Governments to Make Pension Payments
As unfunded pension liabilities mount, California’s cities and counties are bracing for the additional contributions they’ll have to make to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
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Michigan Adopts Most Innovative Teacher Pension Reform in the Nation
Changes to MPSERS reduce risk, provide choice, stabilize long-term costs, and keep promises.