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| In a horror picture, sometimes you never really fully dispatch the monster. They just keep coming back. Some issues we deal with (Issues, not people) are eerily reminiscent of this trope... |
Sometimes the toughest, most complex issues with which we contend are the toughest ones to fix.
These issues never go away.
Like a fire that you think is out but that keeps flaring up.....
Like legal bills that keep arriving in the mail months and months after the case is settled.....
Like the Horror Show trope where the monster is never dead, no matter how many times it should be, no matter how many times it is "dispatched" -----it just keeps coming back to life. (this is simply a metaphor---I'm talking issues not people)
So here is the new issue that won't go away.
The four counties of the first Judicial Circuit recently navigated a tricky replacement of this area's Coroner. There were a number of alleged issues associated with our previous coroner's performance and fees and payments and exorbitant salaries, public money put into private companies, etc. etc. etc. Then there were lawsuits. It all blew up a few summers ago, but again--- it was resolved this past October 1 with the placement of a new Coroner. It was ugly. But we fixed it and it went away.
So we thought.
But the new coroner, apparently, (according to our old coroner's lawyer) is making more than the previous on was---that is AFTER some pay adjustments were made. (Prior to the adjustments, this previous coroner's compensation approached $700K yearly--not a bad government wage)
(Read all about that sordid history here.)
So now that our previous coroner has relocated and settled in at a different part of the state, a federal lawsuit has been filed against the three of the four counties of the first judicial circuit by the former coroner.
The crux of it appears to be that the new coroner, a man, is making MORE than the previous coroner, a woman, was making.
Some issues never go away.
Press "Read More," below on the left, to read the compete 7-page complaint.
