Editorial: Start from scratch on Phoenix

Two years later, it still seems astonishing that any government could have allowed the Phoenix pay system calamity to occur. There were myriad warning signs ­– studies, interim reports, memos to senior officials – that the massive public service compensation project wasn’t ready for prime time. Yet a perfect storm of bureaucratic and political hubris pushed it out of the nest before it was anywhere near ready for flight. Now the federal government is in imminent danger of h