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Howard County, Maryland has earned 391 NACo Achievement Awards since December 2018. In 2026 alone it took 113, a Maryland record, spanning 16 of the 18 national award categories. What…

County Business Patterns covers every county in the United States. All of them. A county of 4,000 residents appears in the same federal dataset as Los Angeles, updated on the…

For nearly 150 years, a three-member board ran Salt Lake County. Territorial Utah called them selectmen, sitting alongside an appointed probate judge. Statehood in 1896 turned them into county commissioners.…

In 1952, King County voters rejected a plan to modernize their government by nearly two to one. Sixteen years later, voters approved a strikingly similar reform, and the county has…

Manufacturing pays more per worker than almost any other private sector, which makes county manufacturing employment data one of the most useful numbers a county leader can track. A single…

Cook County collected more than 35,000 pounds of used government equipment and turned it into refurbished computers for residents who needed them. That single effort captures what strong county digital…

The County Executives of America family is heartbroken by the passing of Claiborne County Mayor Joe Brooks. While Joe proudly served the people of Claiborne County, those of us who…

Only 18 county programs in the entire nation earned Best in Category honors at the NACo Achievement Awards 2026 and two of them came from CEA member counties. The National…

Healthcare is the largest employer in many American counties. It’s also one of the most consequential sectors for county government because counties often run hospitals, health departments, and behavioral health…