The Good: A horrible twister hit Greensburg, Kansas last year, destroying nearly the entire city. The tornado left the town in ruins, and decimated the John Deere dealership, the largest business in the city. When the town had to think about rebuilding, the mayor decided that they needed to do something to make an impact. Rebuilding the small city wouldn’t be enough to satisfy this battered and bruised community, so their ideas got bigger and greener.

The mayor and nonprofit worker Daniel Wallach pitched an idea to the residents of the city: a completely green community. The conservative city was reluctant to make the change at first, but with some guidance became impassioned with the idea. A wind turbine popped up at the John Deere dealership, reclaimed wood was being brought in to build houses, and the residents pitched in to help. Now, a year later, the town is well on its way to becoming GreenTown Greensburg, a move that residents hope will attract new green businesses to employ and retain the local teens that would normally leave for jobs out of the city.

The Bad: A month ago college student Brittany Zimmermann was found slain in her apartment. The girl was found by her fiancé after what was believed to be a robbery gone wrong. The University of Wisconsin-Madison mourned Brittany’s death as a horrible tragedy, but their sadness turns to anger with some new information that has come to light. Madison Police Chief Nobel Wray announced that there had been a phone call from Brittany’s phone to 911 prior to her death. They have yet to release the call’s content, but police have said it indicated that there was a serious problem with Ms. Zimmermann.

But Ms. Zimmermann was not found by the police responding to her call; instead she was found by her fiancé. The reason police were not at the scene? The 911 operator hung up. According to police, the 911 dispatcher asked many times if there was an emergency and got no answer. The dispatcher than hung up and did not follow the normal procedure of calling back. No help was sent. It is times like these that really show how adamant you have to be at your place of employment. A decision that takes you a split second to make can affect society more than you could ever imagine. Please do your best at your job and help prevent this from happening again.