Fremont County Sells Plot for U.S. Immigration Office
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 8--FLORENCE - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office will be built at the Fremont County Airport Industrial Park.   Fremont County commissioners last Thursday approved the sale of eight acres of land for the project.
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A planned border fence has provoked alarm among land owners fearful of being cut off from their own property.
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By Alyson Crean, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Dec. 16--Negotiations moved along more quickly than Monroe County Administrator Tom Willi had anticipated earlier this month; now a proposal to purchase the Lower Keys Geiger Key Marina is up for approval Wednesday.
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By Chelsea Phua, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--A new sign-posting ordinance will give Sacramento County residents early notice of development projects proposed in their neighborhoods, county officials said.
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By Andrew Edwards, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep.
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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.
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By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 18--Pierce County is closing in on the last two properties that would put the South Prairie-to-Buckley segment of the Foothills Trail into public ownership.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 8--County's vision for limited development near Swift Reservoir looks promising   It is way too easy for the 400,000-plus residents of Clark County to dismiss as insignificant the civic affairs of adjacent Skamania County, population 10,300.
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One Colorado county tries a novel capitalist approach to containing the spread of monster houses
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 20--Pima County will continue to pay for water stations in the desert to aid illegal border crossers.
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The Department of Homeland Security   on Thursday said it hired Boeing Co. BA.N to build a   projected $2 billion "virtual fence" equipped with sensors and   cameras along the U.S. border with Mexico and Canada to help   control illegal immigration.
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Pinal County, Ariz., was the fastest-growing housing market in the nation last year, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau Wednesday.
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By Stephanie Sandoval, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 12--A group of residents hoping to force a public vote on a Farmers Branch ordinance banning apartment owners from renting to illegal immigrants didn't turn in their petition Monday as they had hoped.
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By J.N. Sbranti, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Mar. 1--MERCED -- Merced County has relaunched its digital mapping Web site, which provides free access to information about land parcels throughout the county.
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U.S. real estate investors are heading  south of the border, putting their money in an array of  projects and properties they believe will generate attractive  returns from Mexico's growing economy.
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Supporters of the anti-illegal immigration measure adopted in Prince William County last week have argued that its most important purpose is to send a powerful signal to the county's mostly Latino illegal immigrants that they are no longer welcome.
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By Kimberly Trone, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Feb. 6--The Riverside County Board of Supervisors today will consider a  financial agreement on a land swap that could lead to expansion of the  downtown Riverside jail.