Opinion - Not enough color?

At last week’s budget hearing, two commissioners complained they did not have a copy of the preliminary budget.

Auditor Eunice Coker said she had sent the figures two weeks earlier.

Apparently, the figures had been e-mailed to the commissioners, but the two just did not know what to do with them. Commissioner Greg Partch, in fact, complained that he could not read them because they were not in finished form, and, as he said, they were not printed off in color.

Well, he got his wish.

The preliminary 2011 budget is awash in red. The deficit is estimated to be more than $600,0000. This estimate i...