Gordon Graham here again – and I hope all is going good for you and yours and that you have successfully weathered the most recent series of storms – and of course the good news regarding the wet weather is that it may help out with some of the “serious” water issues that our State is facing. I suspect that we will be having some major “water” concerns in our future – but this rain (and more importantly the snow) is certainly necessary to help abate the recent drought conditions in our state.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have a “flood of money” all of a sudden showing up to help our current financial situation – but that is not going to happen – and continuing on with my last piece for this site – we must remember that it gets down to “money in” and “money out” – and if you can’t increase the amount of money coming in – then we must somehow reduce the amount of money going out – and I don’t want to see people getting laid off when there are other expenditures that I view as “unnecessary” (and I listed them in the last piece) – and apparently my thinking made some of you think – and I sincerely appreciate that some of you took the time to give me your thoughts – including some of the emails that came to my personal account. (more…)