The good news for federal employees, according to the Asbury Park Press analyses, is that overall they do quite well when compared with other Americans: Federal employees are paid two to 5.6 times the private-sector average in 352 counties, many in states that border Canada and Mexico. The area with the greatest federal-to-private pay disparity was Nassau County, Fla. The good news for federal employees, according to the Asbury Park Press analyses, is that overall they do quite well when...

That's because last year, the City Council decided that the free market had begun to meet housing demands and that providing affordable housing should be left to the private sector. is particularly worried about how the city will house 2,000-plus temporary workers expected in Gillette for work on major projects during the next several years. They said they were looking for a basic home, but ended up renting a trailer for $850 a month. But the definition of "affordable" is murky at best,...

Logging companies and mills have already seen prices drop because of the slump in construction, so they don't need to get flooded with the fallen timber. Forestry officials are trying to stop the infestation from spreading by cutting down diseased trees and carving out a 150-foot swath of adjoining, healthy trees. The park already has 110 "bug spots," and the neighboring Oconee National Forest and adjoining counties have dozens of other infested stands. Diseased trees -- easily...

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My mother has green hills for breasts and rum for milk; her vagina is shaded by a fragrant logwood fur, and sweet and cool runs the river from her sex. I promise not to try not to mess with your mind, she said to me in a dream that seemed decidedly like reality as I drove down a battered road where First World engineers were being flummoxed by Third World initiative, and a Jamaica Hope crossed the dusty ruts, her great big udders filled with milk that would spoil, undulating as she walked,...