In many ways, solar installers are simply dealing with the effects of the economic downturn, which has left some cities understaffed and sometimes turning to higher fees to help balance budgets.
In addition, loss of usually sound investments and the credit in the municipal bond markets -- where local governments turn for relatively cheap, fast money --has left some cities facing their worst fiscal crises in decades.
But recent investment losses have already left some cities and states on the hook for a mounting debt, covering not just the retirement money for their workers but also the interest on the bonds.
Local mosquito control departments, without federal resources, will maintain wildly disparate resources, leaving some cities and towns with world-class virology laboratories and others with part-time, one-man operations expected to spray for a mosquito less susceptible to the controls which dominated the past two decades.
Strong winds downed trees and power lines, leaving some cities isolated from communication.
Here in Falluja, in Anbar Province, the sewage treatment system has left some of the city's busiest streets lined with open trenches for more than three years and engendered widespread resentment.
Minutes later, on one of the busiest strips in Queens, a massacre began to unfold -- a crime so grisly, so ruthless that it left some of the city's most experienced homicide investigators sickened.
Japan had really done most of what a country could do to prepare building codes, evacuation drills, sea walls, seismic sensors and the quake and tsunami still left some of its cities smashed-up.
The potential for a conviction has left some important organizations in the city worried.
