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BUFFALO - Alice Swett loves her job. "It's solving puzzles day after day, and I love solving puzzles," she said. She has been an accountant since 1986 and owns Swett Equity Accounting, where she employs two full-time and one part-time accountant, in addition to herself. But Swett said she's lucky to have the staff she does, as the number of people in the profession has dwindled over the years. Swett often has to turn people away because she can't take on more clients. "There...
BUFFALO — The number of mental-health related calls and the severity of the calls that come into Johnson County's dispatch center have increased over the past few years, but mental health services haven't increased to match, Johnson County Sheriff Rod Odenbach said. Unmet mental health needs can sometimes lead to law enforcement involvement when they reach a crisis point. Once law enforcement is involved, Odenbach said, those agencies sometimes don't have enough resources to provide the services people may need. Allen T...