EDITORIAL: Solid Environmental Program is a Must for Jackson County
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By The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 19--Green has been gold for Jackson County taxpayers in recent years.   Environmental programs started under former County Executive Katheryn Shields cut waste-hauling fees and utility bills, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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By The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 18--This just in: Fresno County will soon begin doing something about graffiti in rural neighborhoods.   Well, not exactly soon. The program is another six or eight weeks away. But in county time, that's relatively fast.
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Staff Writer. 8/25/04 Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Anderson said Tuesday that his department feels vindicated by the state attorney general&#39;s conclusion that Michael Jackson was not mistreated while in custody last year.
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By Sharen Trembath  This is a last-ditch effort to let the public know about the latest attempt of the Erie County executive to balance the county budget on the back of the county parks system.
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By Laith Agha, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 12--Landfill, solid waste management site, environmental park -- call it what you will. Just don't call it a dump.
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By JAKE RIGDON Journal Staff Writer  Sandoval County has an illegal dumping ordinance written specifically for the area where a number of coyote carcasses were found this week.
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By Andy Hyland, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 17--It's time for an update to Platte County's strategic plan, commissioners say.   They voted unanimously Thursday to seek proposals for an update to their "Platte Profile" plan.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 10--HARRISON COUNTY -- County leaders have given the green light to a new alternative-housing pilot program.   The plan is to provide FEMA trailer residents with safer and better-designed emergency homes.
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By Paul Muschick, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 12--Northampton County Council will be asked to approve four open space preservation projects totaling about 380 acres at a cost of about $792,000.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 14--A proposed long-term strategy for managing and developing water resources in El Dorado County may not be perfect, but a spokesman for a water advocacy group says it's time the plan, six years in the making, was adopted.
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By Chris Niskanen, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 17--One of my last conversations with departing De-partment of Natural Resources Commissioner Gene Merriam was a rare moment of clarity between the press and government.
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By Jefferson George, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 21--The actual vote won't happen for two months, but the outcome seemed clear Monday: Lincoln County ultimately will get a new growth-management program.
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By Blair Goldstein, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--Twice a month for almost two years, Wayne Morton has met with his neighbors to organize against a dump.
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By Wayne Risher risher@desotoappealcom  Residents of a lakefront community in south DeSoto County are steamed about a Memphis company's bid to operate an asphalt plant nearby.  Paving company APAC Tennessee is scheduled to take its case to the Board of Supervisors Jan.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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By Chuck Mueller, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.