St. Louis County has a $41 million budget deficit.
Solution? Proposed cuts to St. Louis County budget include jail, police and public health staff
Only the fact that the county is a patchwork of independent school districts prevented it from going after teachers, too.
Whenever faced with a shortfall, big local governments always target its essential functions, not the nice-to-haves, which are somehow untouchable but which citizens won’t raise a hue and cry about cutting.
