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Milwaukee County has been in a furor since early this year when it was discovered that an obscure pension provision would result in lump-sum payouts of millions of dollars for the county executive and senior officials. The county executive, who has waived his right to the enhanced retirement benefits, asked for and received the resignations of three of the pension plan architects. Infuriated taxpayers collected more than twice the number of ...

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