The numbers aren't promising.
    Close to 38 percent of active physicians in the United States are nearing retirement age.
    The rising cost of running a medical practice is increasing while doctors' revenue streams head south. And while more and more people are enrolling in medical school, fewer are going into general practice.

Your local dry cleaner is taking steps to conserve resources that you might not be aware of, and you can participate in one of them.

    Dodge City Public Library offers two programs designed to make you more computer literate: a basic computer class at 3 p.m. Thursday and a Web development workshop for beginners at 10 a.m. Friday.

Shane Bangerter, partner in the law firm Rebein Bangerter, P.A. has been named Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.

All art forms require inspired use of color, design and texture. Most art forms also require mastery of some technical skill: use of a brush, manipulating clay, using a camera.
    Bruce Bitter's art requires the artistic eye and compositional skills of a painter. It also requires some skill with a plasma torch.

When you think of county seat wars, you might imagine some lively town hall meetings, a hotly contested election or some angry editorials in the local papers.
    In Gray County in 1889, things went a little farther than that. In fact, when Cimarron residents tell you how to locate the county courthouse that was the location for many of the disputes, they tell you to look for a building with sandblasted brick and bullet holes.'

A mix of good weather and bad economy seems to have kept Dodge Citians near home for this year's Dodge City Days.

Cab wars are common in big cities like New York or Los Angeles — but in Dodge City?
    Believe it.

Even though almost 20 percent of General Motor's dealerships are being cut around the country, it appears that the two local dealers will come out relatively unscathed.
    John Wentling, co-owner of G & G Supercenters in Dodge City, told the Daily Globe on Monday that just like other dealers around the country, G & G awaited a certified letter in the mail Friday saying it was on the list of now-defunct dealers.

The winner in the latest round of Dodge City’s cola wars is ... Pepsi.
    The Dodge City Commission voted unanimously Monday to award soft-drink pouring rights at all city-owned properties, including All 4 Fun and the Civic Center, to Pepsi. The decision clears the way for the Parks and Recreation Department to negotiate a final contract with Pepsi