"You do not laugh at Mr. Glock, " says Christopher Edwards, the burly former deputy sheriff of Jefferson County, Ky.
The idea was to reflect the whole of Jefferson County, which is 60 percent white and 38 percent black.
"Despite all the signs of Mr. Wilson's intellectual disabilities and the diagnosis of the court-appointed neuropsychologist, the District Court of Jefferson County (Texas) concluded that Mr. Wilson is not mentally retarded, " the ACLU posting said, with "not" italicized for emphasis.
At the heart of the Jefferson county bankruptcy are the costs associated with a project for its sanitary sewer system.
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"The investigation is under way, " Deputy Steve Davis of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said at midday on Wednesday.
Jefferson County Board of Education.
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Hardy McCollum, the chairman of the Tuscaloosa County commission, quotes Thomas Jefferson's dictum that the body that governs best is the one closest to the voters.
Vice President Joe Biden was recently dispatched to Democratic stronghold Jefferson County in the important swing state of Ohio, in part because Obama barely eked out a win over John McCain in the predominately white, working-class community.
Jefferson County has 20 such representatives, all of whom have to agree to any decision.
To balance its budget last year, Jefferson County School District laid off a number of teachers and education support staff, including me.
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The ill-advised Jefferson County and Harrisburg projects are specific cases of mismanagement that are not tied systemic risk and should have no bearing on the health of, for example, a muni bond-financed turnpike in New Jersey or a hospital in Virginia.
Davis, professor of pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and associate coroner for Jefferson County, which includes the city.
They have scoured court records from Cleveland to Jefferson County, Alabama, to throw light on the darker side of the business.
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