21.   The legislators then refused to approve bonds to refurbish the building, and so the computers remain in the aging county office building in White Plains.

22.   The state elections office and county offices stayed open on Veterans Day, normally a holiday, to continue the official recount, Firestone said.

23.   The warden, Ralph Green, has been transferred and assigned an administrative job in the county executive offices.

24.   There, he became a field operations supervisor, overseeing maintenance at county office buildings.

25.   There was no answer at the county offices at the county seat of Fairfield, Calif., Friday.

26.   Those services include laundry and linen cleaning at the county medical center and security at county offices and the county airport.

27.   What happens when a noncitizen applies this week for food stamps seems to depend on the training and directives of individual county offices.

28.   When a loan application is rejected, Travis patiently reworks it with the farmer until it passes muster at the county office.

29.   What would be truly refreshing is to hear candidates for Texas county offices promising to eliminate the positions to which they aspire.

30.   White noted that Democrats still hold a majority of county offices in the state.