1,300
Number of personal texts sent in 2014 from the city-issued cell phone of the head of the utilities and engineering department of Yakima, Wash. The manager got a 10-day unpaid suspension for unauthorized use of city resources.
YAKIMA HERALD REPUBLIC | JANUARY 6, 2015
$349 million
Amount NASA spent to construct a laboratory tower in Gulfport, Miss., that will never be used. The tower, completed in 2014, was designed to test a rocket program that was cancelled in 2010.
GIZMODO | DECEMBER 31, 2014
12:1
Approximate ratio of Christmas trees to people in Oregon. The state sells 6.4 million tress a year, 2 million more than any other state.
MASHABLE | DECEMBER 23, 2014
1,300
Number of students, which is 17 percent of the total number enrolled, who stayed home sick with the flu last Tuesday in the Polk County, Ga., school system, leading the superintendent to cancel classes and start the winter break early.
WXIA-TV | DECEMBER 22, 2014
9
Percent of American eighth-graders who used an e-cigarette in the previous month, compared to 4 percent who had smoked an actual cigarette.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES | DECEMBER 19, 2014
$3.5 billion
The potential budget deficit of the state of Alaska, where the falling price of oil is causing severe problems for a state budget based almost entirely on petroleum production.
ALASKA DISPATCH NEWS | DECEMBER 18, 2014
$680,000
Average amount U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials paid in 2012 to build each of 21 houses for employees in rural Ajo, Ariz., where the average market price of a house was $86,500.
USA TODAY | DECEMBER 17, 2014
79
Percent of New York's public housing units deemed “deficient” by the city housing authority.
HARPER'S | DECEMBER 16, 2014
36
Number of New York City police officers wearing body cameras as part of a pilot program started this fall.
HARPER'S | DECEMBER 15, 2014
22%
Portion of Vermonters who say they consider religion important and regularly attend religious services. Vermont is the least religious state in the country.
MENTAL FLOSS | DECEMBER 12, 2014
34,000
Number of rental units available in Washington, D.C., for under $800 a month, which is slightly more than half the number available in 2005 when adjusted for inflation.
THE URBAN INSTITUTE | DECEMBER 11, 2014
$1.4 million
The increase in New Jersey's annual debt payments, due to new, higher yield bonds issued by the state last week.
GOVERNING | DECEMBER 10, 2014
60,000
Amount of food (in equivalent hot dogs) consumed by ants in New York City that live on the medians on Broadway, according to a recent study.
SMITHSONIAN | DECEMBER 8, 2014
$219,000
Cost of a custom-built conference table purchased by Kean University, a public college in New Jersey, prompting students to petition the school's board of trustees to fire Kean's president.
USA TODAY | DECEMBER 5, 2014
13
Number of school districts in Kentucky where instead of getting snow days, students will work on assignments and attend lessons online.
TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE | DECEMBER 4, 2014
$892 million
The projected gap between revenue and expenses for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for the next fiscal year. Metro wants the eight municipalities served to pay the difference or risk service cutbacks.
THE WASHINGTON POST | DECEMBER 3, 2014
$200 billion
Increase in municipal securities and loans held by banks between 2009 and 2014.
GOVERNING | DECEMBER 1, 2014
1 comment:
349 MILLION dollars for a tower they KNEW would never be used?
And the hero of the liberal left, Nancy Pelosi, actually said, on TV, that they've cut everything they possibly could -- "there's nothing left to cut!"
there is still time to march them all out in the street and hang them, one by one, in front of the rest, as they wait their turn.
Or trust "your guy" to change things.
He needs hanging, too.
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