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Do you care about County politics?
Today in the Oregonian, there's a story about the Multnomah County commissioners' races and why residents should give though for whom they will vote:
The winners, plus Cogen and Wheeler, will run the third-largest government in Oregon, after the state government and the city of Portland.
It goes on to talk - in bullet points - what county government is responsible for:
Responsibilities include administering basic services (running elections, collecting taxes, keeping bridges operating); public safety (courts, jails, rural law enforcement and emergency management); a wide range of social services (health care and antipoverty programs for children, the elderly, and disabled; mentally ill and homeless people); and an assortment of other services (libraries, animal shelter).
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Posted on May 1, 2008
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