By Joyce Kryszak
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Buffalo, NY – The devastated economy is having a troubling ripple effect. Budget cuts are putting the squeeze on local public officials who have to make tough choices about how to fill the gap.
Some are cutting services. And recently, we've been learning that some public officials choose unethical or even illegal ways to fill the coffers - or their own pockets.
In this week's Roundtable discussion, WBFO's Joyce Kryszak and Buffalo News Suburban Editor Bruce Andriatch talk about the some of the rotten effects of the rotten economy. Andriatch starts off telling us what the county executive's proposed twenty percent budget cuts could mean to local libraries.