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To the editor:
Reading about the recent award received by your two reporters for their stories exposing the Essex Regional Retirement Board scandal, reminded me that I had been meaning to write and express my appreciation for this reporting and for The Salem News' ongoing efforts to be the voice of fiscal sanity on the North Shore.
Be it teachers who collect public pensions while working for unions, judges trying to "double dip" for the fifth time, or local government employees who don't feel the state health plan is good enough for them, without your efforts to expose them, and educate the public on the effects of these acts of fiscal impunity, I think we would all have been bankrupt long ago.
At least with The Salem News "on the beat," we have a chance of avoiding a collective North Shore municipal/county insolvency in the next decade.
Jared H. Ward
Wenham
