Alabamians Blame Jefferson County Bankruptcy Delay on Greed, Ego
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It wasn’t caution that kept Jefferson County commissioners from filing for bankruptcy sooner. It was greed and ego, Birmingham-area residents said after a sewer-debt crisis triggered the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
And if you could sum up what else people here are saying, they’d add: It’s about time.