The worst city government.The Worst City Government Because we regard the breadkwond of big-city government a terrible problem, we plan to continue our reports, not only from D.C, but ftom New York's carnival carnival, communal celebration, especially the religious celebration in Catholic countries that takes place just before Lent. Since early times carnivals have been accompanied by parades, masquerades, pageants, and other forms of revelry that had their origins in and elsewhere. Nominations are welcome. How to explain the decision of the Virgin Islands to import consultants from the Worst City Government in America? Who better, we say, to help set up a system of civil service gradations. After all, a few years ago federal auditors found that 80 percent of the D.C. housing authority's maintenance workers were "overgraded"-getting an electrician's salary, say, for taking out the trash. . . . While Marion Barry This article is about the former mayor of Washington, DC. For U.S. House member, see Marion Berry. For the fruit, see Marionberry. Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. enjoys the company of suspected drug dealers, city managers oversee drug programs in their own way. In 1986, the city gave $75,000 for a study to a former campaign worker for a city councilman. The study found that citizens consider drugs a problem. The husband of a top city official received twice as much, mostly for another survey, which found that young people's attitudes toward drugs are strongly influenced by their parents. With drug-related murders at an all-time high, maybe the city can do one more poll to find out how people really feel about seeing their neighbors shot. Any questions? Don't call D.C.'s drug abuse hotline. The number listed in the phone book is disconnected. . . . Runner-up for Worst City Government this month goes to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of for School Board 12, whose members "borrowed" expensive school supplies like computers, hired friends and family for classroom jobs (whether or not they could read), and took expensepaid trips to meetings in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Honolulu, and San Juan San Juan, city, Argentina San Juan (săn wän, Span. sän hwän), city (1991 pop. 353,476), capital of San Juan prov., W Argentina. It is a commercial and industrial center in an agricultural region. . The board member who cast the swing vote in the search for a new superintendent is a homeless heroin addict Any individual who habitually uses any narcotic drug so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is so drawn to the use of such narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his or her drug use. . . . . -Katherine Boo |
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