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.

Little rural schools like Pawnee Heights are often virtually invisible to most of the world. Passing strangers drive right by the tiny town of Rozel, never realizing that Pawnee is the center of community life for the people of the surrounding area.  

"I promise to drive as safely as possible. I will wear my seat belt, and not drive when I am being distracted in any way. My cell phone can be answered later; I can text and call when I have arrived at my destination. I will be a friend to others and not call them when I know they are traveling, or distract them when I am in the car with them. I want to be with my friends as long as I can be, and will help them remember to drive responsibly."

Sports fans looking for pure heart don't need to travel to Manhattan for the K-State game this weekend.
    In fact, they don't have to go any further than Pawnee Heights High School, whose varsity volleyball team gave heart a new meaning during the season opener against Spearville Tuesday night.

If you're name-dropping in the tourism world, you would certainly want to include the American Bus Association, which represents over 1,000 motorcoach and tour companies in the United States and Canada, and GLAMER (Group Leaders of America), which represents 20,000 travel planners who make travel plans for 4.5 million group travelers annually.

The pharmaceutical industry is offering to develop a database that would help Kansas and Missouri enforce new laws limiting the purchase of a key ingredient for making methamphetamine.
    The Consumer Healthcare Products Association said the electronic database would link the two states to a network that would track purchases of cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine.

    The Kansas Department of Transportation expects a resurfacing project on U.S. Highway 400 from Dodge City to Ford to begin by Tuesday, September 1, weather permitting.  The project runs from the east city limits of Dodge City to the north city limits of Ford, a distance of about 14.5 miles.

U.S. Senator Sam Brownback called a town meeting for the people of southwestern Kansas yesterday — and the people came.
    In fact, Dodge City Community College's theater was so packed that people stood in the aisles. The college went all out to welcome Brownback, who has his eye on the governor's office, but is, like most Congressional minority members, pounding the home pavement in an effort to defeat the Obama administration's health care reform bill.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Wind farms have been blamed for disrupting the lives of birds, bats and, most recently, the land-bound sage grouse.
    Now the weatherman?

Kansas government, emergency management and health officials are continuing their discussions and planning for the next round of swine flu in the state.

Leaders are holding a summit Monday afternoon in Topeka on the virus. The governor, health director and adjutant general have scheduled a news conference ahead of the afternoon meetings.