{"id":7553,"date":"2010-02-24T08:57:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2010-02-24T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:57:40","slug":"carlsbadistans-pension-pains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7553","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Pension Pains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barbara Henry<\/strong> explores the issues surrounding the City of <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> employee pensions and how the recently announced mayorial candidate stand on the issues in a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/carlsbad\/article_78329c59-3faf-510d-af65-9d1d74e0e834.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Councilman <strong>Keith Blackburn<\/strong> and Councilman <strong>Matt Hall<\/strong> &#8212;- have opposing viewpoints on the pension issue.<br \/>\nHall, whose candidacy is backed by the city&#8217;s current longtime mayor, has said the city needs to rethink its annual pension expenditures before they come to dominate the city&#8217;s budget. Blackburn, a former Carlsbad police officer expected to be endorsed by the city&#8217;s labor groups, has said the city needs to proceed cautiously and not be among the first in the state to try to restructure its system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems everyone agrees on the old clich\u00e9: if you want to keep good employees you need to pay them. It&#8217;s exactly how that is done that gets sticky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/carlsbad\/article_78329c59-3faf-510d-af65-9d1d74e0e834.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Henry explores the issues surrounding the City of Carlsbadistan&#8217;s employee pensions and how the recently announced mayorial candidate stand on the issues in a story in the North County Times. Councilman Keith Blackburn and Councilman Matt Hall &#8212;- have opposing viewpoints on the pension issue. Hall, whose candidacy is backed by the city&#8217;s current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}