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Two Wisconsin appellate courts bolstered portions of Republicans' contentious collective bargaining restrictions Tuesday, ruling that Milwaukee police can't negotiate their own health care costs and that a county board legally required elected officials to pay more for their benefits.

A potential $140 million surplus in state reimbursements for Pennsylvania's school district pension costs should be plowed back into the pension system to help cover the mushrooming taxpayer share of the costs, Democratic leaders in the Pennsylvania Senate said Monday.

Washington retirement officials are examining a batch of pay raises that helped some government workers increase the values of their pensions.

Sharp gains in investment earnings have put the South Dakota Retirement System in even better shape to pay the retirement benefits of thousands of state, county, city and school employees, officials said Thursday.

Legislation authorizing $1.5 billion in bonds to bolster the Kansas pension system for teachers and government workers has stalled in the state Senate, and one advocate said Wednesday that the bill is dead in the water.

Former President Bill Clinton's 8,300-square-foot Harlem office near the Apollo Theater costs taxpayers nearly $450,000. George W. Bush spends $85,000 on telephone fees, and another $60,000 on travel. Jimmy Carter sends $15,000 worth of postage all on the government's dime.

The "public pension time bomb" is closer than it might seem.

The Montana House on Thursday backed proposed pension fixes from both sides of the aisle and delayed a final decision on which way to go.