Unusually, the Editor of the Star Midweek gave me alittle promo on the front page of the paper – or else he had a little gap tofill - and decided to introduce my column thus:

Mike Crowl in his Column 8 today writes about the budget;well, sort of writes about the budget; well, would you believe almost writesabout the budge on…Page 2.

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The budget

A friend asked me if I was writing about the budget. (I hadn’tthought about it.) Without waiting for a reply, he answered his ...