Open thread: Last night's Sewer Board hearing and the odds that we'll botch the sewer issue yet again.

It generally constitutes a victory for responsible journalism and all around good taste when neither of the local newspaper accounts includes a quote from the transgendered Professor Erika or Councilman Cappuccino. Both the C-J's and the Tribune's stories are factual and absent the hyperbole of shrieking, sobbing "little" people. Good work, guys.

Daniel Suddeath's coverage in the Tribune:

STINKY SITUATION: Sewer board hears public complaints about proposed rate hike Presentations, testimonies display wastewater revenue is falling far short of expenses

The dozens of overhead slides, hours of testimony and stack of handouts the Sewer Board presented Thursday basically boiled down to one message — wastewater revenue is falling far short of expenses.