Column | Pension Reform Tested Vermont Leaders. Here Are Their Grades
weekly political column. Tim Newcomb Last Friday, House Speaker Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington) ducked and withdrew her proposal, made 10 days earlier, for closing the enormous gap of more than $3 billion between what's on hand in the state's pension funds and what's needed to cover pensions for retired state workers and teachers in coming years. Instead, she announced plans to appoint a summer task force to study the issue and recommend reforms to lawmakers in January. Of course, pension fund proble...