Quote of the Week

Regarding the insertion of a numeral that made the city budget go off by $1.66 million, an observer said Monday, "I thought 7 was a lucky number."

The reference was to a typo that converted $184,266.20 in a "payment in lieu of taxes" arrangement into a $1,847,266.20 bigtime error in the budget math.

It would be funny if it wasn't so awful.

--Bernice Paglia