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The state's highest court heard arguments today on whether secret salaries of Penn State employees, including football coach Joe Paterno, should be released to the public.
Penn State will not disclose the salaries of its administrators and employees, and has tried to block an attempt by a reporter for the Patriot-News of Harrisburg to find out the salary of Paterno and three top administrators.
Penn State gets about 10 percent of its more than $3 billion budget from the state but is a separate entity. The reporter, Jan Murphy, sought the salary information from the State Employees Retirement System, to which Paterno and the executives belong.
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Should salaries even partially paid by taxpayers be disclosed to the public?
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