I read with interest John Hammer’s latest Rhino installment on the confusion surrounding the Greensboro Parks and Recreation department’s RFP to run the Farmers’ Market. After sorting it all out, Hammer comes to this conclusion:

If the finances of every department are as messed up as parks and rec, the city shouldn’t have any trouble balancing its budget this year. It won’t need to make cuts. It can just hire some decent accountants who will figure out where all the money is going.

It seems to me like the Farmers’ Market was running just fine the way it is, until somebody suggested that city government get even more involved. Doesn’t seem like it’s going very well.