Property taxes, after all, are used to pay for crucial services like police and fire protection, he said.

And then there are the libraries, which I think of as a crucial municipal service.

For all their evident faults, newspapers perform a crucial democratic service.

Lack of this crucial service has caused many Indian children and their families to do without for a very long time.

So you feel like you're providing a really crucial service.

And the key here, he argues, is to put the enterprises out of the business of providing crucial social services.

All of these groups provide crucial services for the city.

Referring people to other organizations that can help them is a crucial service that most legal aid programs provide.

Most, she says, are dipping into rainy day reserves to protect crucial services.

The four north Hudson communities are believed to be the first to take that step with such a crucial paid service as firefighting.