Caltrans workers on furlough donate time to install 1,000 feet of screening
Caltrans workers, who are taking unpaid furloughs and pay cuts due to the state budget crisis, donated their skills and time on a weekend today to install 1,000 feet of screening to prevent headlight glare between cars on a freeway and a nearby road.
By PETE YOST Attorney General Eric Holder says he has averted daily furloughs of 3,570 federal prison staffers around the country, moving $150 million from other Justice Department accounts to stave off a serious threat to the lives and safety of correctional staff, inmates and the public.