Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has a few questions about some recent top news stories.
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All of the above will be topics during today’s Your Turn radio show (10am EDT) here on federalnewsradio.com (1500 AM in the DC area).
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Is it possible that after two brief but embarrassing shutdowns, Uncle Sam will once again have everybody report to work on Friday only to tell nonessential/non-emergency folks to go home? And if it happens, how long will it last? And when will you get paid?
Also, what’s the deal with government contractors? Most of the publicity these days is from studies ‘showing’ that federal workers are overpaid (and with a superior fringe benefit package) compared to their counterparts in the private sector. But who says? And is it true?
In many parts of government, Defense, Homeland Security and the CIA, contractors seem to outnumber career civil servants. So who makes more? Why is Sen. Sanders, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination, on the offensive against DoD contractors?
There is a fully-functioning lighthouse in the middle of the prairie in Cochin, Saskatchewan, a land-locked province of Canada.
Source: Atlas Obscura
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