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County News Beat

County boards, councils and commissions

What the county board takes up next.

Upcoming county meetings and the items on their agendas, straight from the counties' own public records, each linked to the official agenda. Follow a county and a few watch words, like "rezoning" or "library", and see when they come up.

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How an item reaches this page

  1. 01

    A county clerk posts the meeting and its agenda in the county's Legistar system.

  2. 02

    County News Beat reads that public record every 30 minutes.

  3. 03

    The item is shown as the county published it (very long titles shortened), credited to the county, with a link to the official agenda.

No summaries, no stories, no AI. The county's document is the record.

The next 7 days

All counties

The first 25 are shown. Every meeting is on its county's page.

Counties on the beat

Sources

These are the county governments that publish their meetings through Legistar's public interface. Counties that publish only PDFs on their own websites cannot be read reliably, so they are not listed. Sources

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Plain terms

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  • Every county page, meeting and agenda on the site
  • Search of agenda items in meetings from the last 30 days and everything scheduled
  • A private Beat Sheet that follows 1 county and 3 watch words

For people who follow the beat

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  • Follow all 12 counties on one Beat Sheet
  • Up to 25 watch words
  • Search the whole stored archive (meetings kept for 400 days)
  • A private RSS feed of watch-word hits and a calendar feed (.ics) of the meetings on your beat

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