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It just enables the counties not to absorb the mid-year budget hit that they had not anticipated.

It's also frustrating to see with earth fissures in the news, that the counties are still trying to figure out who's going to take the lead.

It's because of the quality of our land. On the average, except for our lower tiers of counties and some of the northeast, it's far more productive land.

It sort of solidifies us a little bit, winning the counties back-to-back. Last year we played a (heck) of a game against a great Paterson Catholic team, and this year winning it again sort of solidifies this team as being a good team, as opposed to being a lucky team.

It's up to the counties when they'll play, but it is disappointing that in a one-off game against Australia, they can't come up. I think they would have enjoyed it, but we'll have to get on with it.

The numbers indicate that demand for housing has pushed buyers out to the western counties where real estate is still affordable. The higher percentage increases in condo sales in those regions indicate that many first-time buyers are entering the market in those areas.

That's pretty good. It wasn't that long ago that about 10 counties had double-digit unemployment.

That projection assumes the growth rate in the county will slow down. Washington County will still be one of the major growth counties in the state and nation.

Each of the golf carts will have a name on the front of it, and those golf carts will represent the counties that are actually in Ireland.

The board members will now weigh all of this and decide. But I can tell you that since the state and the Forest Service and the counties have agreed, I would be very surprised if they were not approved.

The bite got bigger on a smaller apple, and if you look at hospitals in other counties you'll see that privatization is the way they are being run,

The awareness of historical and archaeological resources in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties is vitally important to our area's ongoing historic preservation efforts. This kiosk serves a critical element to the council's marketing infrastructure to promote these efforts to visitors as well as to area residents.

The atmosphere at the counties can be unnerving and players can get easily rattled. Our nerves caused us not to play well in the finals. We definitely weren't comfortable.

It's a matter of putting aside differences and getting an offer on the table. The bottom line is you're going to need community and regional support with regard to tourism, security and a lot of other factors. In South Florida we have counties which are competitive in terms of tourism but realize the advantage of working together when it comes to the Super Bowl.

It's a mess. Eastern or Central, I think the whole state needs to be on the same time, with the exception maybe of those few counties up by Chicago.

It was a combination of factors. We have, by far, the largest market share of any carrier in the state in these eight counties - 26%. We don't want to do this, but we had to in order to manage our exposure.

They bombarded the council, the Secretary of Commerce, and engaged a bipartisan group of legislators from the Central Valley and Coastal counties to support salmon fishing. It was an unprecedented show of force and solidarity.

The votes in these four selective counties are not being counted accurately or fairly. They are being counted subjectively and selectively. They are being counted differently than votes in Florida's 63 other counties. They are being counted differently within the four counties themselves,

The vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report includes livestock, ... In addition, the vision of an ag park set forth in the BioCrossroads report is aimed at counties that are more rural than Delaware County. We believe Shideler is too densely populated for an ag park.

The need is critical here as it is pretty much everywhere. Domestic violence cases are on the rise. We serve 1,100 to 1,200 people a year ... in four counties in Arkansas and two in Texas.

Service demand would definitely go up if something major were to happen here. You can't staff for all emergencies, that's why there's mutual aid from other counties and areas. That's why there's volunteers.

At this time, the start date of construction has not been established. We are nearing the completion of construction documents, acquiring necessary properties and working with Clifton and Passaic Counties regarding traffic signalization and traffic impacts.

The kids (in Hillsborough) don't get the opportunity to play like the other counties provide. If you take a good athlete that has just started the game as a ninth-grader and compare him to a kid who has played three or four years prior to that, the kid playing longer has the edge.

The labor movement in all four counties is enthusiastically supportive of Capri. When it's all said and done, she'll have the greatest number of endorsements, and the greatest number of voters within the labor movement.

The issue before the West Virginia Legislature is an issue of county option elections -- should voters of particular counties decide?

The integration of the two networks in Tennessee gives our valued customers in these cities and counties increased coverage, improved call quality and ability to make calls in more places. Our network is the foundation of our business, and we are continually working to make it even stronger than it already is.

The counties that do the best job of assessing get penalized.

The counties that are losing jobs and they are so poor simply don't have the money to compete. In the piedmont they're paying teachers bonuses to teach. In the eastern part of the state, they're lucky to find teacher willing to live here.

The counties listed in the letter submitted by the governor for federal assistance are those most impacted by the recent storms and needing the extra federal assistance.

I'm excited to go on the bus and sing 'Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall' or whatever else you sing. I think that will be fun. It'll be a way to let our hair down and talk about life in general and the election. So many people throughout the seven counties helped me, but they don't know each other.

I imagine the curfew was very important, especially the first couple of months. But I think at this point and time, based on the interaction I've had with the local community, people are really wanting to get out and stay here in Bay St. Louis instead of driving to Waveland and Diamondhead and other counties to go out and have a good time.

I'm sure the senator didn't intend to leave Lee or Charlotte counties out of the process. Lee and Charlotte counties will have representation.

In Marion, Sumter and Lake counties you might want to try to protect the outside pipes.

In all likelihood, that is why all but a very few counties retain emergency management directly under the board of county commissioners,

I know that Hunt and Wise counties have had widespread grassfires. I don't think that Plano has been affected, thank goodness.

I'm just really happy. We sent just four kids to Five Counties and a lot of people questioned my decision to do that.

If not for the Williamson Act, a lot of the farms would be taxed to death, so for years we've worked quite long and hard just to maintain the Williamson funding. Sound land-use planning in counties helps some farms stay in existence in the face of urbanization.

In the roughly six hours that the counting of the votes took place, a very large amount of progress was made. If the count had continued yesterday afternoon and this morning, that count would be largely completed, with possibly the exception of one or two counties that were outside of the Tallahassee area,

I support it because I think we need to be on par with the state so that we can attract and retain good teachers. We need, at the very least, to look at what other counties in our area are doing.

Cache County is growing at a much slower pace than other counties in the state.

Because now it has been established and detected in all of California's counties by the end of 2004, we expect more widespread and earlier activity this year. I'm sure we'll see more activity in Oregon and Washington as well.

Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines.

He told me this is happening all over the state. In the counties that are growing fast, like ours, it's a big problem. He also said it's against the law to relocate coyotes in Texas.

I'd say we're probably one of the most prepared counties in the country.

I am not looking for a place to cut a deal, cut a bargain or to put something over on the county, ... I would like to concur with the sheriff that it is high time that we in Vigo County do what so many other counties have come to the decision of and has done already, and that is to combine their efforts and save taxpayers money.

If county returns are not received by 5 p.m. on the seventh day following the election, ... all missing counties shall be ignored and the results on file (with the secretary of state's office) shall be certified.

Granted, it's not going to be enough, but I believe, with the sheriff's department of the four counties that I issued the executive order, overtime pay, additional staffing of $1.7 million dollars, I think we're going to do a lot better job,

For the past two decades, the Economic Development Commission has waged a largely futile campaign to lure companies here, ... Both Accomack and Northampton counties have poured millions of dollars into industrial parks that sit unfilled or are up for sale.

The machine has been out there for about four or five years in different places in the country. We've just been waiting for the right time to bring it here. We're falling in the middle of the timeline of counties that have it.

The truth is, both counties benefit from those of us who live up here. Butler County gets our property taxes and Platte County gets our retail sales tax.

These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. We'll talk to anybody that wants to talk. The goal is to have better equipped, better trained, more efficient offices.

All counties contiguous to the 44 identified counties will also be a part of the plan as we look to see where the best combinations fit the needs of farmers across Illinois.

All counties contiguous to the 43 identified counties will also be a part of the plan as we look to see where the best combinations fit the needs of farmers across Illinois.

The damage identified in the requested counties is not beyond the combined capabilities of the state and affected local governments,

The damage assessment teams will follow essentially the same path Ophelia did, starting in the southern counties and moving north, ... This is a vital step in the recovery process, and one that will help provide our people the help they need to get life back to normal.

All told, by the end of Monday, expect 4 to 8 inches of rain in the north counties and 2 to 4 inches in the Bay Area, with the majority of it in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The four rural counties in the district also received wind and rain damage and experienced power outages affecting thousands of families.

The first thing, your honor, is that any candidate could have requested a manual recount in any county, so that the manual recount provision is something that by statute is given to the candidates. And wherever there has been a manual recount requested, the counties have gone forward, and indeed some of the results that have already been certified have been results that included manual recounts.

The cities and counties throughout the state have done a lot of things to bring funding to the table.

All of the counties have lower unemployment in December than in November, which is unusual.

The legal authority's there if you want to use it, I mean as a practical matter, it would require bonds and financing and it would be beyond the means of Potter County and most counties because it would be so expensive.