King County, Washington

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    Briefly, the upper part of Mississippi, which is now known as the Mississippi Delta, was under the control of the Choctaw Indians. From 1820-1884, the Indians were moved by three series of treaties. The three series of treaties were Treaty of Doak’s Stand, Treaty of Fort Adam, and the Treaty of Fort Confederation. Substantially, one of the most emphasized treaties to remove the Indians was the Treaty of Doak’s Stand in 1820. The Treaty of Doak’s Stand ceded approximately 5,000,000 acre of the Indians’ territories, which now makes up Washington County, Bolivar, Coahoma, Tunica County, Issaquena and Sunflower. By 1850s, white settlements had made their moves and the Mississippi Delta became the most productive area in Mississippi. However, by January 1866 after the Civil War, slavery came to an end leaving many without resources to relocate so they settled in the Delta. The region became disastrous because the emancipated slaves lack the main resources to develop a better lifestyle such as transportation, education, security, and monetary…

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    approximately 500 people lived in Jonesborough. According to Jonesborough.org at that time, it had four physicians, two churches, and four schools (joneborough.org). Today it has 122 general practitioners and 21 physicians’ offices listed in the yellow pages located in Jonesborough. There are two nursing care facilities and one health department for Washington County, in which Jonesborough is part. Jonesborough does have a 911 system in place. However, there is no emergency room, therefore;…

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    This incident happened in the City of Auburn, County of King, Washington. On 4-6-2016 at about 1955 hrs I was dispatched to 12704 SE 295th ST for the report of a stolen vehicle. Dispatched advised the reporting party, Ikhra Mohamed, was 911 to report that her vehicle was stolen and she believed that her brother, Diriye Mohamed, was the likely suspect. I knew all involved parties as I was recently at the address for a dispute and sighting of a juvenile runaway. During that incident, Ikhra…

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    Public Campaign Finance

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    City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

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    the User-Friendly Budget may not create further citizen engagement based upon the research. Research has shown that by studying the budget process in all 50 states, we ended up with a wide variety of requirements. The only similarity that appears through this study was that state governments are primarily only concerned with the first step of informing the public. There is no requirement or mandate beyond this to narrow the gap between government's creation of the budget document and citizen…

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    Types of external considerations within Rutherford County are related to natural disasters, political disasters and macroeconomic shifts, including inflation, rate of growth, and unemployment. As a measure to offset natural disasters, we have relationships with other counties across the state coordinate efforts with our Emergency Management team. Indeed, the county 's mitigation planning efforts consist of local, state, and federal assistance. Unfortunately, there are few measures to plan for…

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    Haoyu Zhao PUP432 10.15.2015 Case Brief Contractors And Builders Association Of Pinellas County V. City Of Dunedin Background Context Until the 20th century, the general law in Florida stipulated that local governments could only obtain funds from public revenues as they had no authority to taxes. The local government made the realization that these funds were insufficient for running the everyday affairs of the growing county. For this reason, the county turned to private sources…

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    Pivot Table / Chart Report Exercise There are four observations in the pivot table, and the one part of pivot table report is about the annual adult care facility, total number of census, SMI and SSI. The other part is about New York State Population, total population and total number of race and ethnicity distribution. The results that I received are come from the data Adult Care Facility Annual Survey and New York State Population. I use the pivot table or chart to get the observations. At the…

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    Jill started a new job as a count/verification assistant for the Johnson County Board of Elections. After completing her degree, she believed she would have the greatest chance of making a difference in her community and society as a whole. She had completed the counties required training and briefings, read and agree to the terms of the Statement of Secrecy, and she would have no problem with acting impartially at all times and respect confidentiality of material handled. Mark the senior…

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    The county commission is the local government in each of the fifty five counties. Fifty-four counties elect commissions that have 3 members while Jefferson County has a five-member. There are many different roles they do in Braxton County and many different people are in evolved in helping are county out. The county clerk has a big role in helping are county. Each county elects a county clerk whose responsibilities include the management of records of the county commission and election…

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