City steps up efforts to handle shortage
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The city has made some adjustments at health clinics providing flu shots but enduring long waits and arriving very early are still the keys to getting vaccinated.
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By Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 19--City government leaders plan to develop an inventory of the community's natural resources to protect the most valuable from development.
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Poor-paying positions in health care and social services have driven recent growth in employment in the city.
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WASHINGTON  - Policymakers and the medical  profession need to recognize and take immediate steps to avert  a looming shortage of physicians, analysts told a forum on  Capitol Hill Tuesday.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Dec. 9--No matter how much effort city officials put into preparing a city budget, it can't budget for everything.
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District officials, in an effort to offer residents access to cheaper prescription drugs, have placed a link on the city Web site to a guide for ordering drugs from Canadian pharmacies.
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AS part of its ongoing efforts to increase broa
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday that the city has joined an effort led by Illinois to obtain additional doses of flu vaccine from Europe to ease the nationwide shortage.
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A method for producing red blood cells in the laboratory could one day help solve the shortage of donated blood.
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The flu season is not here yet, but the shortage has prompted an uncertain triage of prevention.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 24--TRACY -- Officials plan to squirrel away some of the city's liquid assets.
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Private ferry operators need public-funding lifelines to stay afloat, City Council officials warned yesterday. Alarmed by service cutbacks announced recently by the financially troubled NY
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Â· Mayor reaches out to Polish voters in capital  Â· Pork and pierogi at City Hall to woo community
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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By Mary Macdonald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Jun. 2--Used to be fixing the sewers, adding sidewalks and getting the  trash picked up on time was enough.    Now cities feel they need to help save the planet.
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The Planning Service is inundated with a flood of applications for new housing developments.
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By Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 19--Everywhere you look right now, you'll see some organization asking for assistance to help someone in need. You may even start to feel overwhelmed by all the requests.