Alaskans also should be able to examine the salary schedules for legislative staff members. The former house press secretary "got" $9,000 per month and was fired after allegedly beating up his girl friend. The replacement press secretary "gets" about the same and told me he has a degree in air traffic control -- not journalism or something relevant to the job. 

I bet there are mostly overpaid sycophants working for the legislature, with no real academic credentials and preparation, but who know all about the ghosts in the legislative closets and who promise to keep quiet about all of it.