County News Coverage: 2022 NACo Annual Conference

Calvin Ball’s appointment to the Howard County, Md. Council in 2006 launched a county government leadership career that will have lasted more than 20 years when he leaves office after two terms as the county’s first African American executive. 

NACo CEO Matt Chase writes: "Counties did not ask to be on the front lines of the AI era. But we are.  The power demands, the water use, the land battles, the tax base, the workforce changes, the pressure for public services — all of it lands on us first." 

Debbie Bell's trail to become Fremont County, Colo.'s first female commissioner started when she was 16 and suggested her father run for the commission, which prompted him to challenge her to do the same.