Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Your Money: Legislature preserves nonexistent $71,000 job


AUGUSTA, Maine - Patrick Dostie, the state's nuclear safety inspector, has been coming to work every day to a job he has held since 1989 even though the position was eliminated in 2005 by the Legislature. The total budget for the position, which includes benefits, travel and his share of the office space at the state's Public Advocate office, is $158,000. State's only nuclear power plant closed and officially decommissioned in 1997. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Things Remembered