Has anyone looked at the San Diego City model of providing medical services. It is actually a partnership not a takeover, and it provides rapid medial aid to citizens. After all, that is the name of the game.

In the City of San Diego, help usually arrives first in a fire engine.

A Paramedic/Firefighter is in each of the city's 47 fire stations. With fire stations strategically placed throughout neighborhoods, a paramedic along with three firefighter/Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) arrives on the scene of an emergency more quickly. The Paramedic/Firefighter is soon reinforced by a paramedic ambulance carrying an additional paramedic and an EMT.

The City of San Diego's 9-1-1 medical system, San Diego Medical Services Enterprise, is an innovative partnership between the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department and Rural/Metro of San Diego, Incorporated. I'm not saying switch to Rural/Metro, just look at the model.

See www.sdmse.com

"... What's next, are you going to fly to Haiti to insult the victims of the earthquake? ..." GrandmaCrabby

Actually Actor(?) Danny Glover has done that already.

JSpence07 and stevetepri... I think you are missing ls1's point and unduly chastising him/her. What he said was that the officer should be put on leave until HIS AIM IMPROVES, not because he actually fired his weapon. I have to agree, he needs remedial shooting 101. If you are going to fire your weapon, make it count, or you could be the one going to the morgue.

All I can say is thank God that the NSA will be helping out on cybercrime. Because it certainly is a crime that 'uddeboda' is allowed to post here and stir up trouble. By the way doesn't 'uddeboda' mean terrorist in Swedish? Once the NSA gets a peek at your IP, let us see how far you get if you decide to leave Stockholm and come to the U.S.A. They're gonna turn you around and boot your butt back to Sweden.
And don't think that we don't know that Sweden is behind the big push at the UN to outlaw personal firearms. Neutral my keister. God bless the National Rifle Association, if it wasn't for them we'd be throwing rocks in Afagn and Iraq.

FINALLY... we will have a public record accessible to anyone of who is gay or lesbian.

Running a casino is just like any other business from the local pizza shop to the dry cleaners. Let us not forget that the owners in larger businesses are also accountable to the investors and stockholders. The Fertitta brothers are just like you and I, they want to make money and keep their business in this rotten economy. Union or no union, if things don't pick up soon, quite a few people will be unemployed. I am a strong supporter of unions, but if the place you work at tanks, it will not matter if you are a member or not; you will still be on the unemployment line. BTW - I don't think that Obama is the answer either.