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Article: More problems than money: a Texas County copes. (Webb County, Texas) (National Association of Counties)
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- The Bond Buyer
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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Webb County, Tex., home of the nation's largest inland port and the second fastest growing city in the United States, also has more than its share of challenges and troubles.
Located along the Texas-Mexico border with Laredo at the center, the sprawling county has faced an inmate riot that gutted its detention center, a rabies epidemic, and the takeover of bankrupt water and sewer systems, all in the last nine months.
Then there are the ongoing problems of finding ways to pave some of the almost 300 miles of county roads, or about 85% of the total, and of paying growing indigent care costs in a region where more than one-third of the people live below ...
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