Why even keep districts around?
The key informants at the Epidemiology Surveillance Division attributed the increased completeness and timeliness indicators during that period to the fact that the Monday weekly publication kept districts and HSDs on their toes to avoid missing out in the widely publicized disease table.
In a four-page resignation letter, Bay Area Community Resources' former treasurer, Ruth Rubalcava, said the agency kept district administrators on its payroll and let them control millions of dollars in grant money held in an agency account.
Last September, during the 21-day federal government shutdown, mayor Vincent Gray defied Congress and kept District government offices running, notwithstanding the questionable constitutionality of Gray's affirmation that he would continue spending local revenues generated for the express purpose of funding local government.
Still, the company keeps attracting districts and investors, an indication that its success may have less to do with its financial performance than its ability to sell what it describes as its academic expertise.
As WMATA continues to work toward a safer, more reliable metro system, hopefully it keeps the District's most vulnerable populations in mind.
Some reformers managed to close the vice districts in their cities, while in other places, the machine politicians managed to keep the districts open.
But the prisoner scam is one way to keep upstate districts intact and Republican, as the area steadily loses population.
But a number of states, and courts, chose to keep the districts of legions of incumbents intact or even to shore them up with more like-minded voters.
SITUATED just below the city of Hartford, the midsized community of Newington lacks the pristinely kept historic districts, scenic rivers and executive neighborhoods prized by many of its suburban neighbors.
