Every go-go boy deserves favor.
The Go-Go Boy Sonnets by Edmund Miller Inkwater Press. 312 pages, $24.95 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY supposedly said, "Only a fool has never written a sonnet, and only a fool has written more than one sonnet." But Sidney wrote scores of them, and Shakespeare...

Issue hangs over income tax talk.
Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard Two Lane County commissioners clashed Wednesday over the county's public-safety income tax proposal and the taxation of retirement income. The exchange between commissioners Bill Dwyer and Bobby Green represented the board's first public conflict over an aspect of the $27...

Pushing a poisoned elixir.
Security and risk are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but the Bush Administration's two latest retirement policy proposals are built on the idea of injecting more risk to create greater security over the long term. Both proposals are popular with retirement-industry lobbies, but generally controversial because...

BSP okays SMIC tender on EPCIB.
Byline: FIL C. SIONIL The Monetary Board, the policy-making body of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), has given its approval in principle to the purchase by SM Investment Corporation (SMIC), the investment arm of the Sy family, of the Equitable PCI Bank (EPCI Bank) shares through...

The President, Sir Neil Cossons, in the Chair.
6 June 2005 The Honorary Secretary, Dr MICHAEL FIRTH, read the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 7 June 2004. The Minutes were approved and signed. The Director, Dr RITA GARDNER, presented a review of the year with the use of slides and drew...

CALENDAR.
Byline: The Register-Guard Coburg TODAY Coburg Fire Board - 7 p.m., 91232 N. Coburg Road. Call 686-1573. Eugene TODAY Human Rights Commission Advocate Response Team - 5:30 p.m., 833 Willamette St. Call 682-5177. Joint Eugene...

Employers to give 1% increase in SSS contributions.
All employers will give a one-percent increase in their Social Security System (SSS) contributions, starting January, 2007. President Arroyo approved Social Security Commission (SSC) Resolution No. 382 on the contribution increase shouldered solely by the employers, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced yesterday. The employer's share...

Employer-provided health care: where's the justice?
The United States is not best in the world at much of anything anymore. Toyotas and Hondas, once derided as "economy cars," now outsell and outperform Chevrolets and Fords. A team of NBA All-Star basketball players coached by future Hall of Famer Mike Kryschewski could...

Their risks are your risks.
As employers continue to confront the bottom-line impact of the cost of their employee benefits and employees struggle to prepare for more expensive retirement needs, they are both discovering that their interests may be inexorably linked. Neither side of the labor balance may have enough money to manage their...

Uncaring veterans? (some veterans resist government's attempt to take over their superannuating funds)%XOTOT.
Veterans are disappointingly blase regarding the take-over of the Canadian Forces (and Public Service) superannuating funds by the Chretien government. In effect, they are letting THEIR bucks be stolen to make our financial picture look good. In contrast, one Crown Corporation employee representative stood firm, and as a result...