State of Denial

RochesterPundit has an excellent take on recent front page coverage in our Newspaper of Record, about benefits received by directors of the Monroe County Water Authority. Most telling was this observation:

Buried in two pages of moralizing and misinformation are the following critical facts: (1) "the benefits available to the Water Authority board are comparable to those of other water authorities in the state;" and (2) Monroe County's rates are "among the lowest in the Northeast."

In other words, the current board members are paid commensurate with their position and have done a good job at keeping rates low.

Read the whole thing here.