North Carolina declared a central county (Wake) endemic for Lyme disease in 2010 6 and a growing number of other counties have had one local case meeting state and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) standards.
But the fiscal crisis went from a simmer to a full boil in April, when the Alabama Supreme Court declared a major county tax unconstitutional.
In Arkansas, Governor Asa Hutchinson declared a dozen counties disaster areas on Tuesday, and added nine more counties on Wednesday.
With the tornado's toll at three dead and more than 400 homes and businesses damaged or destroyed, the federal government declared a three-county swath of Maryland a disaster area.
As the spill rolled into 100 miles of rivers and streams, clogging water treatment plants and forcing schools, restaurants, laundries and a power plant to close before dispersing at the Ohio River, Gov. Paul E. Patton of Kentucky, a Democrat and former coal mine operator, declared a 10-county emergency.
And, as of yesterday, the city of Durango and La Plata County declared a state of emergency.
Finally, last March, the county declared a "public safety fiscal emergency", starting the path to emergency state funding.
In fact, it was declared a landmark by the county's Tri-Centennial Commitypifyingypifying "the attention-getting styles of roadside restaurants in the 1920's".
"NAKED GUY IS NOT OUR PARTY CHIEF: LOCAL AUTHORITY" was the headline in the Global Times after the Communist Party committee in Lujiang county declared a case of mistaken identity in response to the suggestion that a bespectacled participant bears an extraordinary resemblance to Wang Minsheng, the local Party secretary.
Earlier this week, a cluster of 16 villages in the southwestern part of Shandong Province declared a rabies alert, and county officials have drafted a dog extermination plan that would call for the killing of any dog found within a three-mile radius of any known rabies case.
L.A. County declared a local emergency Monday as the wildfire continued to grow.
