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Hammel: Consultant locating state savings
Every candidate for governor always promises two things — to cut property taxes and eliminate the “waste” in state spending. Both of those pledges are awfully easy to make — and play well on a TV ad — and much harder to achieve. Current Gov. Jim Pillen is …