MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
The list of highest-paid active [public] employees counts 27 football coaches, 13 basketball coaches, and 1 hockey coach. The leftover ten include five college presidents, a medical school chancellor, a medical school department chair, a medical school plastic surgeon, and a law school dean. (The math gets you to 51 positions because Minnesota’s football and basketball coach are each earning $1.2 million.)