Local officials go to great lengths to protect companies on their patch, often by giving them preferential access to land or credit, or by easing bureaucratic constraints for them.
Access to couple's counseling: To gauge resources for couples who hit a rough patch, we collected the zip codes of members belonging to the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a professional organization for marriage and family therapists.
Had Del Priore been covering them for Patch, or had he merely used his work there as an excuse to get access to athletes, it would be a very different story.