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    Business Plan Miami City

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    My vision for Miami County is going to involve a lot of change. The first thing I would want to do the most work and change is the main part of Miami County which is the area which has the courthouse and the stores beside it. Most buildings that Miami County has have been there for many years,family owned, and have never been changed to fit the more modern times. Therefore this where the change would come in and we would start to redo the buildings and make them more attractive and bigger. Doing

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    4.2 White Paper on Local Government According to the White Paper on Local Government, local authorities have the following responsibilities in terms of their obligation to economic development: ● Provide marketing and investment support in order to attract potential support to their locality. ● Small business support services should be providing to assist small entrepreneurs. ● To provide targeted assistance to a particular sector in the local economy that has to potential to expand. ● By supplementing

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    The counties in Texas have an odd relationship with the state government and the Texas constitution. The counties are under the state and they are required to handle duties that the state rants them. However, the counties are strongly against the involvement of the state government. Brown (2014) states that “both county officials and county residents see them as local governments and resent any state ‘interference’” (p.110). The counties are charged with the responsibilities of collecting taxes on

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    describing how some states have consolidated the county and city functions into a single entity, and my opinion on whether or not Texas would be better maintaining its several distinct types or consolidating them into a single larger entity. The commissioner’s court has several roles such as taxes, discretion in administering state programs, determine how much state funding is provided to each special area (medical, supplemental food, etc.), upkeep and new county jails, all while providing health and safety

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    Marva Collins Case Study

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    require just "books, a board, and a couple of legs that will last the day," Marva Collins told Dan Hurley in 50 Plus magazine. These three things were basically all that Collins had when she opened the Westside Preparatory School in Chicago, Illinois, in 1975 with the $5,000 she had added to her benefits subsidize. Frustrated in the wake of instructing in the state funded educational system for a long time, Collins chose to leave and open a school that would welcome understudies who had been dismisses

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    On November 11, 2017 I went to dance fusion. Dance fusion is a show put on by college kids from the Collin college Spring Creek Campus. Along with dancers from the university of Texas at Arlington, University of Central Oklahoma and Texas Woman’s University. Upon entering the john Anthony Theatre, I noticed that many of the other students also watching the show had brought notebooks to take notes on what they had seen, and I had not even thought about that. At first, I didn’t know how I was going

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    The 1913 Lockout, 1916 Rising, the Treaty of 1921 and the Causes of the Civil War, 1922 John Redmond became the leader of the Home rule party when the English election was a draw. Neither the conservatives nor liberals got a majority. Redmond and the home rule party now held the balance of power. The leader of the liberals, Asquith, promised Redmond in 1910 that Ireland would have home rule by 1914. Redmond accepted. The unionists refused to accept and decided to fight

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    Country 1 Writing Assignment Dance Attended: Friday April 28th County Dance in WB112 – Fundraiser for OSU Equestrian team 7:45-11:00pm Attending this dance was quite a memorable experience. I went with some ballroom dance friends and my friend Mary, who is in Country 1 with me. I didn’t realize it was a fundraiser until I asked the people checking it in what the funds went toward; it was wonderful to learn that the OSU equestrian was raising money for a national competition. There were only a few

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    signed. The continuous strive for religious freedom and ultimate desire for a united Irish state, while an ideological goal, proved contradicting. Since the Northern counties of the Irish territory were primarily protestant and heavily influenced by the Church of England it proposed a problem of true unity, since the Southern counties of Ireland were overwhelmingly traditional Catholics. Evidence exists for both religious freedom and Irish

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    current trends continue, approximately 40 percent of these new households will be captured by Collin County, significantly driving the residential market in this region. In fact, 98 percent of all population growth in the PMSA is expected to be captured by the three county areas of Collin, Denton and Dallas. 2. Housing Affordability, Average Sales Price and Growth As it is illustrated in figure 2.1, Collin County has the highest percentage of families that can afford median-priced homes in Dallas market

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