This Is the Point Where I Would Have Once Replied, "Does Metro Face a Tight Budget? Do All Billy Squier Songs Sound Like 'The Stroke'?"

Except that I just downloaded a recent bluesy accoustic version of 'The Stroke' to my Ipod (I like that Billy Squier), so I can't use that smart-ass rhetorical question anymore. But it is been self-evident for sometime that the budget is tight. Just imagine how many Metro services might have been helped last year if the Council had spent most of the discretionary funds on those services rather than on throwing money at non-profits.