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	magoo.com: McGoughs, McGeoughs, and McGeoghs in the Counties of Ireland
		Twenty-srx counties are in the Republic of Ireland and six are in Northern Ireland.
		McGough and McGeough Gravestone Inscriptions in County Monaghan
		Ballymackeogh in county Tipperary was the center of one of the distinct septs of McKoghs.
	www.magoo.com /hugh/counties.html (3159 words)

	ODA - Story of the week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Six counties in the top ten saw decreases in agricultural sales in 2002-- Marion (2% decrease in sales), Washington (-2%), Yamhill (-5%), Malheur (-6%), Polk (-11%), and Umatilla, dropping a whopping 24% last year.
		Other counties outside the top ten but showing healthy increases in agricultural sales last year were Hood River, with a $9 million jump (18%), Coos, with a $7 million increase (18%), and Curry, with a $4 million increase (20%).
		Marion County's decline was buffered somewhat by it's tremendous diversity of agriculture.
	www.oda.state.or.us /information/news/2003/030226counties.html (766 words)

	FAC Legislative Bulletin Week Six
		The bill was further amended to provide the governing board of the county the $115 portion of the surcharge to be used to defray the costs of incarceration and to provide additional training to law enforcement personnel in combating domestic violence.
		Counties are required to provide certain infrastructure countywide - the jail, the county road system, the landfill, the health departments, and the courthouse - that benefit all county residents.
		Counties will be hit directly in their budget, dramatically increasing the county's financial responsibility for indigent health care.
	www.scenicflorida.org /fac_legislative_bulletin_week_six.html (3110 words)

	South Carolina State Library Counties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Counties were established in the colonial period primarily for locating land grants, with most other governmental activities being centralized in Charleston.
		New counties continued to be formed until the early part of this century, with the most recent being Allendale in 1919.
		Counties were essentially governed by their state legislative delegations.
	www.state.sc.us /scsl/counties.html (259 words)

	ODA - Story of the Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The only counties showing a decrease in sales from 1999 to 2000 are Linn at $195 million (3.5% decrease), Polk at $107 million (1.0% decrease), Tillamook at $86 million (1.1% decrease), Wasco at $54 million (7.4% decrease), Coos at $35 million (2.8% decrease), and Clatsop at $10 million (60% decrease).
		Increased county figures on the west side can be attributed to strong sales in greenhouse and nursery crops, Christmas trees, and various vegetable and berry crops.
		County sales data also shoots down the myth that agriculture is strictly a rural endeavor.
	www.oda.state.or.us /information/news/2001/county_ag_2000.html (793 words)

	Counties of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer used for local government, and two former counties in the Republic have been subdivided, giving a modern total of 29 counties for administrative purposes rather than 26.
		The counties are subdivisions of the ancient Provinces of Ireland
		Some of the 26 counties are no longer the main basis for local government, planning and community development purposes, although unlike the counties in Great Britain, the Republic's traditional county boundaries are still generally respected for other purposes (counties on occasion being sub-divided).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Counties_of_Ireland (1277 words)

	DeKalb History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Six counties in the United States are named for De Kalb, making it the third most popular name for counties in the nation.
		The city of Decatur, chartered as the county seat in 1823, is the second oldest municipality in the Atlanta area.
		Like the neighboring counties from which it was chartered, DeKalb's roots are in native American culture, and many artifacts remain, especially in the Soapstone area of South DeKalb, recently designated an historic district.
	www.co.dekalb.ga.us /history.htm (496 words)

	Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is situated within the province of Ulster, consists of six counties, and in the UK is generally known as one of its four Home Nations, forming a constituent country of the United Kingdom.
		These counties are no longer used for local government purposes; instead there are twenty-six districts of Northern Ireland which have different geographical extents, even in the case of those named after the counties from which they derive their name.
		Six of the nine Ulster counties in the north-east formed Northern Ireland and the remaining three counties joined those of Leinster, Munster and Connacht to form Southern Ireland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Six_Counties (6280 words)

	Manufacturing Counties-The Fallen
		Six counties (Fayette, Grant, Johnson, Madison, Wabash and White) had the dismal distinction of being included in all three categories and will be the focus of this article (see Figure 1).
		Interestingly, while Madison County also benefits from a close geographic proximity to the Indianapolis metro (and was actually part of the metro prior to the 2003 redefinition), it has not seen the growth experienced by the other ‘donut’ counties.
		Nevertheless, the overall average weekly wage increased between 2001:2 and 2005:2 for all six counties, ranging from a $12 increase in Fayette County to a $67 increase in Johnson County.
	www.ibrc.indiana.edu /incontext/2006/march/2.html (1602 words)

	Striking Out: The Failure of California's "Three Strikes and You're Out" Law
		Since California counties enforce the “Three Strikes” law in different ways, it was hypothesized that counties that employed a strict enforcement policy would experience higher levels of crime reduction.
		Official county-by county statistics for homicide, all violent crime, property crime, and all index offenses where obtained from the California Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Statistics Center.
		For purposes of this evaluation, California’s 12 largest counties which account for three-fourths of the state’s population and four-fifths of its major crime were examined.
	www.cjcj.org /pubs/three_strikes/strikingout.html (2038 words)

	FEMA: Six Ohio Counties Added To Public Assistance Declaration
		COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Federal officials have added six counties to list of seventeen counties originally declared eligible for disaster funds to supplement state and local government costs for responding to the record snowstorm that hit the state in December, the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today.
		The six new counties are: Crawford, Huron, Marion, Richland, Sandusky and Seneca.
		Seventeen counties were originally designated to receive federal funding to cover part of the cost for emergency protective measures undertaken as a result of the snowstorm.
	www.fema.gov /news/newsrelease.fema?id=16242 (354 words)

	Formation of South Carolina Counties
		Neither the Counties nor the Parishes were divisions of the other, they just coexisted, with the Parish actually having the record keeping authority.
		In 1798 Camden District was abolished and the remaining counties of Fairfield, Kershaw, and Lancaster became Districts.
		In 1798 Cheraws District was abolished and the counties of Chesterfield, Darlington and Marlboro became Districts.
	www.martygrant.com /gen/refs/sccounty.htm (1000 words)

	Six New Counties Join Growing Family Court Effort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The new project counties will receive a total of $125,000 in family court grants in 2006, and an additional $125,000 will be distributed to help the existing family court counties transition to permanent funding through local resources.
		These two counties will also develop local family court rules and promote concepts of cooperative divorce and a less adversarial approach in family law litigation.
		The Family Court Project for Crawford, Martin, Orange, and Pike counties is a collaboration of four rural counties using the same personnel to provide subsidized mediation for families with low-income and without legal counsel.
	www.state.in.us /judiciary/press/2006/0320.html (527 words)

	CANCER ED. RATES RISING IN SIX COUNTIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 10 counties in the original project were Burleson, Falls, Freestone, Grimes, Leon, Limestone, Madison, Milam, Robertson and Washington counties.
		Guidry said a major goal of the project was for the counties to develop programs that would survive after the grant team left.
		The six counties were awarded grants for programs on topics like breast cancer awareness, skin cancer awareness (especially targeting rural farmers), breast cancer training for nursing home personnel and health fairs.
	www.tamu.edu /aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/071196-2.html (362 words)

	County Efforts to Expand Health Coverage among the Uninsured in Six California Counties - CHCF.org
		While the California county governments are responsible for administering the Medi-Cal and Healthy Families programs, they also have primary responsibility for providing health care to uninsured individuals.
		Six counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, and Solano Counties) that expanded coverage to bridge the gap in public programs are examined in this report.
		Each county has implemented different programs in its expansion effort and have targeted either children who were not eligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families or low-income uninsured adults.
	www.chcf.org /topics/healthinsurance/index.cfm?itemID=20422 (266 words)

	H-Net Review: Walter D. Kamphoefner on Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas: 1865-1880 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In their political stance, however, none of the six counties voted more than 36 percent against secession, even though one-quarter of the state's participating voters opposed it, and 25 of the 100-odd organized counties in Texas turned in opposing votes ranging from 40 percent upwards.
		For example, while most of the investigated counties had a significant contingent of Unionists, they varied in origins from county to county and thus were not natural political allies.
		Some counties remained heavily polarized in their politics, while in others Reconstruction issues appeared to play a minor role and local candidates of a variety of backgrounds gained office.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=76907357813 (1156 words)

	A SNAPSHOT OF THE SIX BORDER COUNTIES
		The counties with the highest percentages in each category are shaded gray.
		Their combined populations represent over three-quarters of the total population in the six counties.
		The 6 border counties are in District 3.)
	www.nmsu.edu /~bho/bho/eh/cda/Preassess_frontend_web/a_snapshot_of_the_six_border_cou1.htm (371 words)

	2000 Bellwether Results
		Bellwether states and counties are those locations that have successfully voted for the winning presidential candidate over a period of time.
		The counties are Logan, AR; Van Buren, AR; New Castle, DE; Vigo, IN; Lincoln, MO; Socorro, NM; Eddy, NM; and Ferry, WA (note that the results for Ferry, WA ended in a tie between Dukakis and Bush in 1988).
		Gore's victory in New Castle county was also large enough to carry the bellwether state of Delaware by a narrower, but still large 13 percentage points.
	www.uselectionatlas.org /INFORMATION/ARTICLES/pe2000bellwether.php (454 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Congress has appropriated approximately $5.05 billion through HUD to the state of Mississippi to aid in the long-term recovery of the State from Hurricane Katrina. Governor Haley Barbour has decided to utilize a portion of these monies to fund water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects.
		The grants will begin to be made to the County Utility Authorities shortly after approval of the Action Plan by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD.
		These County Utility Authorities were established by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Region Utility Act and empowered to provide planning and exercise general supervision over the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of water, wastewater, and stormwater systems.
	www.stormwaterauthority.org /library/view_article.aspx?id=657 (521 words)

	UAlbany Expands Child Autism Program To 50 School Districts in Six Counties
		ALBANY, N.Y. (March 25, 2004) -- The Regional Center for Autism pilot program, a pioneering approach to serve the needs of children with autism, their parents and school professionals, expanded this fall from three to six counties and from 30 to 50 school districts.
		Originally called the North County Autism and Technical Assistance Center Pilot Program, CARD started with and will continue programs in Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties in addition to the expansion.
		The State Education Department places this increase conservatively at more than 175 percent over the past 10 years, while the U.S. Department of Education has estimated the rise to be 435 percent nationwide during that same period.
	www.albany.edu /news/releases/2004/mar2004/autism_expands.htm (709 words)

	Table of Contents: NC Six- County Cardiovascular Health Survey
		The Six-County CVH Survey was designed to provide county-level data for the Lead CVH Counties on physical activity, nutrition, and other cardiovascular disease risk factors to use in planning and implementing their cardiovascular health programs.
		The survey was a random-digit-dialed telephone survey of adults (at least 18 years of age) residing in each of the six counties, and covered the following topics: physical activity, nutrition, tobacco use, worksite environment (related to physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use), demographics, hypertension awareness, stroke awareness, and disability.
		The data presented in these tables were weighted to adjust for the probability of participant selection and to reflect the demographic makeup of the six counties; this weighting procedure makes the data more representative of the population of the six counties.
	www.startwithyourheart.com /resources/sixcountycvh/6cntytoc.htm (658 words)

	NewsChannel 8 - Storms Prompt Tornado Warnings For Six Oklahoma Counties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Cherokee County, strong rotation was detected by radar about 12 miles west of Peggs moving east at 40 miles per hour.
		In Wagoner County, the strongest rotation was seen near Coweta moving northeast at 50 miles per hour.
		In Mayes County, the strong rotation was detected about four miles northwest of Adair moving northeast at 45 miles per hour.
	www.ktul.com /news/stories/0306/309990.html (337 words)

	FEMA: Six New Counties Eligible for Disaster Assistance
		The additional counties were made eligible for disaster assistance based on a review of damage data gathered by federal and state officials.
		The six counties join 19 Oklahoma counties that were previously declared eligible.
		Residents and business owners in the affected counties may apply for a wide range of state and federal disaster assistance programs under the May 10 disaster declaration issued by President George W. Bush.
	www.fema.gov /news/newsrelease.fema?id=3224 (271 words)

	Scoop: Six Washington Counties To Use Uncertified E-Votes
		He approved the installation of new software lacking federal certification to count votes cast in six counties (King, Pierce, Kitsap, Snohomish, Klickitat, and Chelan).
		The population in these six counties constitutes over half the population of Washington.
		In the last four weeks the six counties installed new non-federally certified election software that has been minimally tested.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0408/S00200.htm (803 words)

	Six Counties in Arkansas under Rabies Alert
		Little Rock—Six counties in Arkansas are currently under a rabies alert.
		A county is placed on alert status when more than three rabid animals have been found in a county within a 12-month period.
		Rabies, a virus present in saliva that attacks the nervous system, is most often seen in animals such as raccoons, bats, skunks and foxes.
	www.healthyarkansas.com /news/pr_rabies_040102.html (496 words)

	WNDU-TV: News Story: Environmental advisory in effect for six Indiana counties - February 01, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Indiana - State environmental officials are warning residents in six Indiana counties to limit outdoor activity due to unusually poor mid-winter air quality.
		People in those six counties listed previously are being warned to limit outdoor activity because of the poor air quality.
		However, because of recent readings, a state advisory was put in effect for St. Joseph County for Tuesday and Wednesday.
	www.wndu.com /news/022005/news_40032.php (590 words)

	Revenue Crop Protection Now Available in Six Pennsylvania Counties
		Washington, December 17, 1999--Diversified farmers in six Pennsylvania counties are now eligible for an innovative whole farm insurance revenue insurance pilot program called the Adjusted Gross Revenue crop insurance program.
		This new crop insurance is now available in Berks, Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Monroe, and Northampton counties for both the 2000 and 2001 insurance years, according to August Schumacher, Jr., undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services and chairman of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation board of directors.
		The AGR program is currently available in 82 counties in Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
	www.rma.usda.gov /news/pr/1999/991217.html (348 words)

	Radio Iowa: Six Iowa Counties key in general election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Drake University political science professor Dennis Goldford sees six Iowa counties are crucial in determining whether Republican Jim Nussle or Democrat Chet Culver becomes the next governor.
		Goldford says both Vilsack and Harkin "piled up margins" in those six counties that off-set Lightfoot in the remaining 93 counties, all of which Lightfoot carried.
		Goldford says Nussle might perform better in some of those eastern Iowa counties, like Black Hawk, Scott and Dubuque Counties, because he's well know there having represented the area in congress.
	www.radioiowa.com /gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=F3BD6B95-77E3-4EB5-9246867425FF08DA&dbtranslator=local.cfm (175 words)

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