This includes adding badly needed services and reducing the emergency room waiting time that upsets patients and often causes them to never return to a public hospital.
The new ward councils were confronted with the challenge of delivering badly needed services and equitable representation to constituencies still coping with a ruined infrastructure, massive displacement of people, and an entrenched traditional chieftaincy system.
That the party, still Iraq's most fiercely populist and anti-American bloc, has come this far is a reflection of the Sadrists' efforts in recent years to recast themselves as maturing politicians who can actually govern and deliver badly needed services.
As disturbing and intolerable as even one instance of abuse is, the reality is that many people with developmental disabilities receive excellent care in our state, while others and their families struggle as they wait for access to badly needed services.
But rail transit is expected eventually to have "huge economic development implications" that would bring jobs and badly needed services to people living in the Crenshaw district, a largely African-American neighborhood around the midpoint of the Expo Line, Mr. Ridley-Thomas said.
However, if it is true that military, homeland security, and veterans' funding are exempt from the freeze, it is far more likely that badly needed services for some of the most vulnerable low-income people will be threatened.
