One Brick Short

It’s not a pretty front page on the D-P this morning. It’s almost enough to make you drink your whole cup of decaf in one swallow, hoping the scalding liquid down the half-asleep hatch will ground the butterflies in the stomach until you can get to work.

County Budget Looks Bleak tells the tale of Albemarle County’s falling budget projections as induced by the lower assessed values and less new construction from a depressed housing market.

Projected Tab to Fix Wastewater Odor Raises Stink warns us that the cost of getting the smell of our own waste out of our noses may be too much for our pocketbooks, always a problem when infrastructure lags behind growth.

School Infected by Virus? is self-explanatory with sudden onset of explosive vomitus among gradeschool kids. No fun. Don’t ask me how I know that.

Inside is no better: Home Sales Drop by Record Amount, and Wealthy Cut Indulgences and Roadside Bomb Kills 5 U.S.Soldiers bring it home.

If you go back to the front page, you’ll see that, for the first time in a long time, a president or candidate finally got it right: Economy, Iraq Top President’s List of Worries.

Finally our government is worrying about the same things we are.