View of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, from the Chase County Courthouse attic window.

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They Disbanded the Mass State Police troop at Logan Airport for claiming millions in overtime that no one ever worked over a several year period. Of Course the Commander of the post retired rather than facing charges. Business as usual politics wise for Mass.

We lived there during the governorship of Deval Patrick, who had this odd idea that state employment was to provide service to the citizens rather than to provide a paycheck for employees. Every year they published a list of the top ten employees by pay, and the governor was always third or fourth, with several troopers ahead of him.

My officemate for a couple of years had lived there most of her life - when she heard that ordinary citizens were allowed to direct traffic around construction sites in other states, she said she'd never drive in a state like that, so I guess citizens like her are getting what they deserve.