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    New Jersey Case Study

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    Geographic Location The College of New Jersey is located in the Ewing Township, a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey. The neighborhoods can be traced back as far as the 1500’s by the Lenape tribe and was first settled by Europeans in the early 17th century by William Green, whose farmhouse is part of the college campus. TCNJ is home to over 289 colonial acres, which includes attractions, such as The Benjamin Temple House and Mountain View Golf Course. The surrounding Ewing has direct access to Interstate 95, US Route 206, and Route 29, to connect people to Philadelphia, Princeton, and Frenchtown, respectively. Academic Requirements According to The College Board, TCNJ is a very selective college with only 49% of its 11,290 applicants admitted. In addition to stressing the importance of rank and test scores, the college should also be noted for taking great interest in the status of a student’s volunteer work. 43% of students accepted scored between a 500 to 599 on the SAT Critical Reading exam. 50% of the said freshmen had also scored anywhere from a 600 to 699 on the SAT Math. According to its ACT statistics, 63% of the accepted applicants had scored in the mid to late 20’s out of a perfect score of 36. Cost Tuition for students living in New Jersey are charged $15,466 to attend, while it costs out-of-state students $26,397. Similar to many colleges, financial aid is available to students so long as the FAFSA is submitted by March 1st of the calendar year. Despite the fact that…

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    Case Study: Tomball TX

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    Tomball TX Homes For Sale Tired of the noise, hassle, and gridlock of city living? Desire a home where the country air is clean and fresh? Tomball, TX may be the answer to finding your dream “home.” Tomball, TX real estate offers a wide variety of homes with a broad range of prices, from custom builds to rentals to apartments or re-sells. Houses for sale in Tomball, TX range in price from just under $50,000 to upwards of $1.5 million located in a variety of attractive subdivisions in the…

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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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    1. What are the three (3) most pressing issues facing Metcalfe County in the next four years? If elected, what will you do to address these issues? A. Jobs – We have industry in Metcalfe with available positions. We also need new industry, but we have to have people for those jobs. I feel we need to work with the school system on vocational training for industrial jobs. The more trained people we have the better our chances are to receive new businesses and industry. My plan would be to work…

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