To the editor:
Did I read it right? Cottonwood Treatment Center costs $2 million a year and has 87 employees? This seems a little expensive for 32 beds, some filled a whole year by one child. Even a Democratic governor thinks that's a little too much to keep 87 government jobs.
BERNICE WAGNER
Whitewater
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