Steve Eide Archive
How to explain Bloomberg's political success? People like his policies., May 14, 2013
State and local jobs: has the bleeding been stanched?, May 6, 2013
Report: governments now doing less with more, May 6, 2013
S&P is bullish on state governments and GAO bearish. Who's right?, May 3, 2013
Obama budget paints a target on the blue states, May 2, 2013
Pension funds' chase for yield continues, April 26, 2013
Bobby Jindal and the politics of tax reform, April 16, 2013
CalPERS' actuarial magic: can't have it both ways, April 11, 2013
The Stockton ruling: judicial activism or restraint?, April 10, 2013
Moonbeam Newsom's technocratic dodge, March 28, 2013
Teachable moment in Detroit: to avoid takeover, cut OPEB, March 25, 2013
The argument for taking over Detroit, in one chart, March 12, 2013
State and local governments are still losing jobs. This is not rightsizing., March 11, 2013
Federalism makes MUCH more sense as a political system than as a fiscal system, March 7, 2013
Calvin Coolidge's secret strategy to fight union pressure was to say "no", March 4, 2013
Ezra Klein helps to explain why pension reform is, or should be, bipartisan, February 18, 2013
Is Baltimore Stockton?, February 13, 2013
What we mean when we refer to pension and healthcare costs as "unsustainable," in one chart, February 8, 2013
A single-payer approach for public pensions?, February 8, 2013
House of Cards: teachers unions wield more influence over K-12 than Republicans, February 5, 2013
Should idle firefighters be turned into police officers or doctors?, January 29, 2013
Robert Citron, 1925-2013, January 28, 2013
Trends and tea leaves in the BLS' annual unionization report, January 24, 2013
What is "tax reform"? , January 22, 2013
Red states need pension reform, too. What of it?, January 18, 2013
More on state and local government lobbying, January 18, 2013
Good grief! State and local governments spend over $80 million annually on Federal lobbying, January 18, 2013
Youngstown on the Potomac?, January 11, 2013
Revenge of the nerd, January 10, 2013
Update on the great state and local jobs decline, January 9, 2013
Scoring the fiscal cliff deal for state and local governments, January 2, 2013
The tax reformer's dilemma, December 20, 2012
OPEB, Medicare and the fiscal cliff, December 18, 2012
Defense spending and the blue states, December 17, 2012
Don't cry for me sequestration, December 5, 2012
Charter schools in New Jersey, or why authorization policies matter. A lot., December 4, 2012
Why state and local government?, December 3, 2012
Health benefits: still richer in the public sector, November 29, 2012
The fiscal cliff and the states: unimpressed, November 19, 2012
Pensions and the Pentagon, November 16, 2012
Fiscal federalism through the years, November 13, 2012
Who's afraid of the fiscal cliff?, November 12, 2012
The muni market, still unperturbed, November 7, 2012
Michigan 2012: pro-Obama and pro-management, November 7, 2012
Soaring retirement benefit costs at Harvard, November 2, 2012
Public pension critics are not malevolent creeps, November 2, 2012
Who's down with O-P-E-B?, October 31, 2012
Regarding OPEB, and governments' revenue problem (no, not that one), October 26, 2012
Tough nerd gets no love, October 17, 2012
The GOP and the cities, October 8, 2012
The Decline of the West, October 1, 2012
Pensions and The Wire, September 24, 2012
What's wrong with Yonkers?, September 17, 2012
Pick your poison, September 17, 2012
The golden age of pension reform?, September 8, 2012
Current public employees in California: can their pension benefits be changed?, August 30, 2012
No on 30 in one chart, August 23, 2012
The moonbeam and the demagogue, August 20, 2012
State capitals, doing better, August 14, 2012
Competence is a more appropriate standard for public servants than excellence, August 13, 2012
On muni-market disclosure fraud, and why conduit bonds are a problem, August 9, 2012
Does full-funding matter?, August 6, 2012
Of Suffolk County and A-Rod, August 6, 2012
Common sense on retiree healthcare in California, August 1, 2012
The public-private union gap: does it weaken or strengthen public sector unions?, July 30, 2012
Project labor agreements on the rise in Massachusetts, July 25, 2012
Sergeant Rembrandt, July 23, 2012
Does Medicare reform threaten states' fiscal stability?, July 20, 2012
The high costs of pay-as-you-go, July 18, 2012
Why we need politicians now more than ever, July 16, 2012
