It was cool of the Navy to remember local staffers and the local
media Tuesday when it announced the new president of the Naval
Postgraduate School, Ronald A. Route. The word went out here
before making it to the national wires.  Unfortunately, however,
the Navy didn't finish the job. Left unannounced was Route's
compensation. Later, says the Navy.  It is a sore subject
because officials were absurdly slow providing basic public
information about the salaries of his predecessor, Dan Oliver,
and the previous provost, Leonard Ferrari, and seem not to have
learned much from that. And because 4,500 civilians at the
school and within the Presidio of Monterey are on rotating
furloughs for financial reasons. And because taxpayers are
paying the bills.  The government knows that by not making the
salary available on the day of the announcement, it likely will
never receive wide circulation in the media. We're not saying
that's what happened here. It's just as likely that someone in
the chain of command didn't send th