{"id":2236,"date":"2010-06-16T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2010-06-16T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:28:20","slug":"top-state-pension-261k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/06\/16\/top-state-pension-261k\/","title":{"rendered":"Top state pension: $261K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably don&#8217;t need to see this right now, what with the state deficit, threatened layoffs, school aid cuts, highway delays, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s lunchtime, and time to check the Albany bloggers. The DN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/\" target=\"_self\">Daily Politics<\/a> gets extra dessert for passing along the news that New York&#8217;s top paid pensioner is collecting just a tad over $261,000 a year. That includes local government retirees as well as\u00a0 police and fire retirees, but not New York City.\u00a0 (Full disclosure: my dad earned a nice retirement by toiling for 25-some years in the OMRDD bureaucracy. But\u00a0 nowhere near THAT nice!)<\/p>\n<p>The Times Union blogger, Celeste Katz, got her information from the Empire Center for New York State Policy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seethroughny.net\/\" target=\"_self\">SeeThroughNY<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empirecenter.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Empire Center<\/a> is a branch of the Manhattan Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Who is it? George Phillips. What did he do? Headed the state Teachers&#8217; Retirement System. There&#8217;s lots more, including a list of the top pensioners,\u00a0 in the DN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/2010\/06\/highest-paid-state-pensioner-r.html\" target=\"_self\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably don&#8217;t need to see this right now, what with the state deficit, threatened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}