The holidays have a funny way of opening doors we didn’t plan to walk through. Music hits a little harder. Certain smells linger longer. Empty chairs speak louder. And for many of us, joy and grief sit next to each other like twins at the dinner table. This season has a way of bringing loved

The county’s Detention Center is just one of the county’s many departments that prove that  high budgets without a plan go unspent and do not enhance productivity. Those high budget departments have too often followed an unproductive pattern of a huge budget without being given a plan, followed by significant underspending and underperformance, followed by