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Surely there will be many impacts that the state budget will have on local government.

In the next few days, we hope to nail down what some of that means for folks on the day-to-day needs.

On Wednesday we spoke with Merle Green, the county's health director, and she told us that because of the economy her department is already feeling the strain of more people looking for work as they lose jobs.

"We took cuts in our case management programs and that is one of our major concerns," she said. "These are nurses and social workers who go into the homes of the elderly and the homes of teen moms and the homes of families where they have developmental disabilities."

But she couldn't give out much for details on that just yet. Overall, Green said she expects to know how state money impacts her department early next week.

As for other county departments?

Well, the ink is hardly dry on the budget, and Gov. Bev Perdue still must sign the danged thing. And for any other consequences in Guilford County, the people who would speak to that - County Manager Brenda Jones Fox and DSS financial director Myra Thompson - are on vacation for most of this week.

We will update as much as possible. In the meantime, here's a few pieces on cuts and spending we are pretty certain about.