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...Miami Beach — a separate city — is the southern part of a skinny barrier island that runs alongside Miami (both are part of Miami-Dade County)....
...My colleague Seb Payne took this shot on the floor and here’s a video interview I did with Stan Stanart, the clerk of Harris County, which has a bigger population than half the states in the US....
...For every sparkling new Pittsburgh or Denver, there is a still devastated Flint, Michigan or Gary, Indiana....
...Investors who could have bought thousands of other bond issues were unlucky in Jefferson County, but their experience is cautionary....
...In Jefferson County, Mr Johnson discovered that the county was still sponsoring a Fairgrounds, but had not had a county fair in almost 10 years....
...If Jefferson County defaults, it would be the biggest by a US municipality, dwarfing the problems faced by California’s Orange County in the 1990s....
...Jefferson County has around $4.6bn in outstanding debt, and a default on that scale would dwarf 1994’s Orange County debacle, in which the California county defaulted on some $1.6bn in debt....
...Bob Inzer, the county clerk, had first heard rumours the fund was in trouble in early November and brought the information to the committee, comprised of himself, three ordinary citizens and Mr Rosenzweig...
...In California, the League of Women Voters has protested against a new, computerised statewide election registry that the group says is improperly rejecting registered voters, while county clerks in several...
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