11.   All that changed last November when Republicans took control of the county commission.

12.   But a vigorous defense of the Germans came from Richard Zierlein, chairman of the Otero county commission.

13.   Few protesters were at the canal on Thursday, but some took their plight before the county commission and to a local mall for a meeting this afternoon.

14.   Greene has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, as have Hightower and Josh Kenyon, the former chief of staff to two county commission chairmen.

15.   He began attending county commission meetings and became a sort of muckraker, uncovering alleged wrongdoing in the courthouse.

16.   I did not have to sit for five hours in a county commission meeting.

17.   In Cherokee County, runoffs for two county commission seats forced by slow-growth forces also are hot tickets.

18.   It behooves the state and county commissions that will decide exactly how the funds will be used to keep the centrality of parenting education clearly in mind.

19.   Last fall the county commissions of three northeastern counties that Maxwell represents passed resolutions making English their official language.

20.   Later, after graduating from the University of Texas and becoming an engineer, Ratliff began testifying before city councils and county commissions.