David Klepper

• Pension forum previews possible Rhode Island governor race

  By David Klepper  |  March 19, 2013

  An investment forum on the financial problems facing America's cities delivered a glimpse Monday of what Rhode Islanders could expect from a potential match-up between Gov. Lincoln Chafee and Treasurer Gina Raimondo in next year's gubernatorial race.

• Cities chart course through pension morass

  By David Klepper  |  January 2, 2013

  In Philadelphia, pension costs doubled in a single decade. Cities in Rhode Island dimmed streetlights, raised taxes and put off road repairs. Stockton, Calif., fell into bankruptcy.

• Rhode Island to seep dismissal of challenge to pension law

  By David Klepper  |  December 6, 2012

  Opposition grows to Gov. Lincoln Chafee's call for negotiations with labor unions seeking to overturn sweeping changes to the state's retirement system.

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  Betrayed by my pension plan: The national battle

  By David Klepper  |  October 8, 2012

  Retired workers across the country counting on cost-of-living increases to their pensions are finding that political fights are putting their benefits at risk.

• Brown to pay Rhode Island city $31.5 million to help budget

  By David Klepper  |  May 1, 2012

  The university has volunteered to up its payments to help offset problems in Providence, where the city has also frozen its pensioners' cost-of-living increases.

• Rhode Island makers blast soda tax idea

  By David Klepper  |  April 11, 2012

  Public health groups in Rhode Island urged lawmakers Tuesday to levy a tax on sugary drinks, but the idea fell flat with beverage industry leaders who said their products shouldn't be singled out in the fight against obesity.

• RI lawmakers plan next round of pension overhaul

  By David Klepper  |  January 2, 2012

  Just weeks after overhauling the state's public pension system, Rhode Island lawmakers plan to consider giving cities and towns the power to revamp municipal pension plans.

• RI Senate approves landmark pension overhaul

  By David Klepper  |  November 17, 2011

  The Rhode Island Senate has passed a comprehensive overhaul of the state's drastically underfunded public pension system.

• RI lawmakers to vote on landmark pension overhaul

  By David Klepper  |  November 17, 2011

  A fight over public pensions in Rhode Island is about to come to a head in the Legislature, with lawmakers scheduled to vote Thursday on a landmark overhaul that has angered public-sector workers in this tiny and economically troubled state.

• Unions rally against RI pension overhaul

  By David Klepper  |  November 9, 2011

  More than a thousand public-sector workers and retirees rallied Tuesday at the Rhode Island Statehouse in opposition to a proposed overhaul of the state's vastly underfunded pension system.