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David Crowley in Washington, D.C., February 2023. Photo: Office of U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, via Wikimedia Commons. U.S. public domain. County Executives of America congratulates Milwaukee County Executive, David Crowley…

A new county matching grant program is helping local governments turn climate plans into projects residents can see in their neighborhoods. A walking trail, a neighborhood tree nursery, a more…

County-level employer payroll data shows how pay is distributed across local industries and how that activity has changed. Budget offices can use it to examine economic exposure, then compare the…

County emergency response technology can help field teams report property damage and track evacuation contacts. Mobile assessment tools and live maps give supervisors information they can use to coordinate response…

The Erie County home rule charter in Pennsylvania was approved by voters in 1976 and took effect on January 1, 1978. It replaced the commissioner system with an elected County…

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…