31.   City officials say that welfare is temporary and that workfare participants are not city employees, and thus they are not permitted to be represented by a union.

32.   Cunningham helped persuade the Decatur City Council to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation as well as provide domestic partner benefits for city employees.

33.   Controlling health-care costs, for both city employees and the poor under the Medicaid program, is one obvious priority.

34.   Deputy Mayor Randy Levine said the city would listen to workfare grievances as if they were coming from city employees, but in an informal procedure.

35.   Did he abuse his position by having city employees run personal errands?

36.   Earlier this month, Hill filed a suit saying that the layoffs violated a state law that prohibits workfare workers from replacing regular city employees.

37.   Farther down the river, as it courses through Hartford, Perkins paddles up to a boat ramp where a city employee is shoveling gravel onto the launching area.

38.   Federal authorities have also been interviewing city employees and residents.

39.   Fiesta is a rollicking San Antonio celebration in which schools close and city employees get the day off for the Battle of Flowers parade.

40.   Forty more city employees were also suspended Tuesday for the same reason but were not yet charged.