[Scott from the Left Coast]

Go down on the Tribnet to the local section and check the story by Sherman and Hagey titled: Audit hits City's financial oversight. That's the one where my Finance Director trades blows with the State Auditor. That made a mess everywhere today.

[Ramius]

I did find that one. All you need to read is:

This audit, conducted in the shadow of the David Brame scandal, focused on several issues brought to the attention of auditors by whistle-blowers, tipsters or outside investigations.

This is truly related to the Brame case how???

Of course it isn't... but for the Trib, there is no other story. The REAL story if SOME media outlet would just report it, is how the Brame case was completely fouled by the Trib. They completely missed the real story, but successfully used it as a wedge to drive into the city.

A good personal friend is in the TPD. Morale at the PD could NOT be lower. The real crisis has not yet begun to materialize. The TPD pretty much feel like they will never be able to recover from the hatchet job that the Trib has done on their department. When cops start bailing out of the department and nobody wants to work there because of an undeserved rap, maybe that will make the front page? No, I don't suppose it will.

[Ramius]

Oh, jeez... I finished reading the rest of the story. That list of "Ten Items" that the 'auditors' found is *really* *really* lame.

They're b*tching about amounts in the thousands, in a budget in the many tens of millions. Yeesh. This is tantamount to calling *me* on the carpet for authorizing a new laptop for one of my staff, out of my three million dollar budget. Yippee Wahhh friggin' whooo.