31.   Cities in Florida and Indiana and Tennessee have merged with their county governments and residents there seem to have survived.

32.   City and county governments need to fight for their cut of a national tobacco settlement, San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne said Friday.

33.   Cities in Florida, Indiana and Tennessee have merged with their county governments, and residents there seem to have survived.

34.   County employees, attracted to the hoopla, craned their necks to watch from the six floors that overlook the atrium in the county government building.

35.   County government is a relative bargain compared to the city.

36.   County government is itself breeding anxiety in Allen because it is divided on the amount and size of lease concessions that would go to a new owner.

37.   County government can often be something akin to anarchy.

38.   County government could remain relevant and vital, but is in desperate need of an overhaul.

39.   Critics say the problem with county governments has less to do with the difficulty they have raising money than the ease they have spending it.