Is Roth IRA best in my situation?

[Zedon]

Since you do participate in an employer's plan, you may or may not be able to deduct traditional IRA contributions. Please see the link following. However, you do have the option to max your 457.

Thanks for the link, that is news to me. If I understand this correctly, anything over 59k(partial), and 69k AGI for a single person would give no deduction so it is the same as a Roth. I'm in the middle, so this kind of trumps every other consideration unless I want to stick with the 457 only which doesn't give me as much control as I like.