(MI) The Michigan Messenger - But here in the state’s third most populous county, downsizing the budget means supersizing the risk of contaminated water, among other public health calamities.

“We have an extremely serious revenue problem,” Thomas Kalkofen, director of the Macomb County Health Department told Michigan Messenger last week.

Already, the county has shed all of its parks employees. Over several rounds of budget cutting this year, 79 full-time positions have been eliminated overall, including 27 layoffs, from a county workforce that currently counts 2,200 workers. More