Mention the word "millage" these days and elected officials will either duck for cover or run the other way. With gas prices in excess of $4 a gallon and groceries costing an arm and a leg, there isn't much left in any of our wallets anymore at the end of the week. That being reality, government officials understand that the chance of getting millage approved these days is somewhere in the neighborhood between "slim" and "none." Thus, don't look for Alpena County commissioners anytime soon to embrace any serious thoughts of a millage related to the sheriff's department and the desperate need for a new county jail. Yet if ever there was a compelling story to be made, the county jail would probably be it. Two week ago Sheriff Steven Kieliszewski updated commissioners about an unusually high number of "high risk" and potentially violent inmates being housed at the facility.