The county council is the legislative branch of the county government and controls all the spending and revenue collection in the county.
County Council: The seven member county council has the ultimate decision-making power regarding fiscal affairs of the county government and controls all the spending and revenue collection in the county.
In 1838, Jacob married Aurelia Phillips, and two years later, was documented as controlling the largest non-farming cadre of laborers in the county, with nineteen free men and twenty nine male slaves.
From 1175 until about 1325, Normans controlled the best land in the county, while Gaelic society retreated to the bogs, forests and the Slieve Bloom Mountains.
The Republican Party in Nassau runs one of the most sophisticated political machines in America, controlling the purse strings and virtually every level of political office in the county, where Republicans outnumber Democrats by 3 to 2.
The proposal to regulate lobbyists, put forth by the coalition, which calls itself the Take Back Democracy Project, is the third initiative to control the influence of special-interest money in the county.
"There is no such thing as a United States Forest Service," Mr. Carver had declared after Nye County passed an ordinance asserting its right to control Federal land in the vast, arid county in central Nevada.
