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Showing posts with label counties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label counties. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Notable cities and counties with low population

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As discussed in class today -  Carbonate, Colorado . - 0 - Monowi, Nebraska . - 1 - Loving County, Texas . - 64
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

From the Texas Tribune: A ballot box found weeks after Election Day has flipped a $569 million school bond vote in Midland

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Wow For our look at how elections are actually run. - Click here for the article . County officials found the missing box in early December...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

From Governing: How Many Local Governments Is Too Many?

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- Click here for the article . It’s not uncommon for one metropolitan area to be home to dozens of local governments. In lots of those plac...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: Can Texas Republicans hold America’s reddest large urban county?

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Tarrant County - Fort Worth - is the only large county in Texas not dominated by Democrats. The author tries to find out why. Demographics s...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

County Magazine

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Just in case you can't get enough about county government in Texas, there's a magazine dedicated to them. Its published by the Texas...

From the Texas Tribune: Austin Poised to Become First "Sanctuary City" In Texas

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A look at an issue likely to dominate the next session of the Texas Legislature. It also allows a look at the complications that result fr...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

From Governing: Can Counties Fix Rural America's Endless Recession? The inability of most rural places to recover from the economic downturn is fueling political and social problems around the nation.

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For our look at counties, as well as the unique problems rural America faces as the economy continues to change. - Click here for the artic...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

From the Texas Association of Counties: GUIDE TO TEXAS LAWS FOR COUNTY OFFICIALS

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This won't make the responsibilities of counties any simpler to understand, but it lays them out. This will be useful for the classes wh...
Friday, November 13, 2015

From Governing Magazine: County Migration Data

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Here's an interactive data sheet that let's you see how many people are moving into each county in the nation and which counties the...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Galveston County Tax Assessor and Collector defends herself

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There apparently snafus regarding registration in the recent election. She offers an explanation. - Click here for the link . The article...

From the Houston Chronicle: Texas counties turn to voting centers to boost turnout

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County officials are using apps to help voters find places to vote. This is from September, so there's no feedback yet on whether these...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

From the Houston Chronicle: Harris County should stop jailing small-time drug offenders

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Here's an opinion piece arguing that the Harris County District Attorney should use her discretion to restrict how it implements one of...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Statewide officials in Texas push back against the gay marriage decision - but seem to accept that it is here to stay

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As 2306 students learned - the state of Texas delegates the handling of the bulk of its paperwork to the counties, much of this is handled b...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Territorial History of the USA: Every Month for 400 Years

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For our look at counties in 2306. For more, click here .
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Brazoria County is the most conservative of the most populous 21 counties in Texas

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This probably explains a lot of what goes on around here; - From the Houston Chronicle . Data from eight University of Texas/Texas Tribune...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

From the Atlantic: The Most and Least Healthy Counties in America

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The good news is that Brazoria County is among the most healthy counties. - Click here for the article . Brazoria County is actually the 2...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

And another red/blue image

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This gives us a good idea about how counties with various population densities vote. Notice that the most populous counties vote Democrat....
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

From the Washington Post: Another way to explain who we are: The 15 types of communities that make up America

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A companion piece to the one about the 11 "nations" within the US. This looks at the 15 unique cultures of the various counties ac...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

More limits proposed on the ability of local governments to pursue environmental claims

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In addition to the bill described below that would limit how counties can pay for legal representation in cases against poluuters, a separat...

From StateImpact Texas: Bill Would Stop Private Lawyers Who Help Counties Sue For Pollution

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The bill is HB 3119 , and it is still in a House committee which makes it unlikely it will pass, but the bill would change the ways counties...