Towns brace for financial holes if state cuts funding :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State
Just when Elgin and Aurora started taking a dent out of the crime rate . . .
Sunday, April 11, 2010
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It just gags me to read that police and fire will be cut when there is so much else that could be cut first. There's a mindset that cities and towns can dig their ways out of financial holes with economic development but this is untrue for several reasons: 1) they end up doing it wrong, because special interests have their ears; 2) the time we really go downhill is when basic services start getting short shrift; 3) it distracts from the necessary hard work to be done in other areas to increase efficiencies, such as re-organization.
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