Home sick.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

The municipal government of Washington, D.C., has a culture with striking similarities to Logan County's. Recently I saw a Washington Post article about the murder of a waiter from a local restaurant, Annie's Paramount. I read it with interest because Annie's has long been favored by Monthly employees for its reasonable prices and friendly atmosphere. The article, in explaining the lack of police protection in the neighborhood, quoted an official as saying one Factor was that so many policemen were on sick leave. How many, I wondered? Was it disproportionate, a la Logan County, to the number of employees on sick leave from...