  Coffee talk? Sheen should meet with retirees  Morning, UP
February 26, 2011  Before Sunday morning, Prichard, Ala., was
unknown to me.  Now the town is on my mind a lot. CBS "Sunday
Morning" did a story reporting the awful truth: That
municipality no longer pays the pensions of its 150 retirees.
Not a dime.  The city is broke and has declared bankruptcy.
Although it was warned for years that this very thing would
happen, the city took no action to preempt its pension fund
running out of money.  Article Photos   So these retirees who,
acccording to the New York Times, paid 5.5 percent of their
salaries into a pension fund have received nothing from the city
for going on two years. This is a violation of Alabama state
law, but nothing has been done to force the city into paying
these folks.  And some say nothing can be done, because Prichard
needs to pay for streetlights and garbage collection and its
police department.  The Sunday morning news show profiled a
couple from Prichard. The woman had served as a