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Las Vegas is the epitome of everything that's wrong with America.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08085/867652-35.stm Almost E-Z: Pennsylvanians win with Ohio's electronic toll plan Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Here's good news for Pennsylvania drivers motoring west. The Ohio Turnpike Commission has finally given the gas to a plan to install E-ZPass toll lanes. .........

I think if Akron was as small as a Hamilton... it would definately be part of Cleveland MSA... but Akron city is almost on the same tier as Cleveland city... so its size affords it enough "independence" to be considered its own MSA... as the immediate Akron area is a major employment center... of course... there is enough connectivity between Cleveland and Akron to warrant a CSA. true but summit county benefits from celveland sprawl. These people aren't suddenly out of the Cleveland Metro just because they moved to Summit County. Many probably commute downtown, etc. How is it handled for a place like SF-Oakland? Is Oakland too big to be considered apart of SF? I'm no expert... but it always seemed to me that the northern tier of Summit County municipalities was more aligned with Cleveland than Akron... if you were to do a sub-county analysis of "metros"... these suburbs could possibly be counted as part of "Cleveland" instead of "Akron"... but county level is the unit of analysis... so there's bound to be some overlap sometimes.

keep in mind that many of those northern Kentucky counties are very tiny... nonetheless... Cincy MSA does cover more area...

I don't have that information handy, sorry. it's on the Census County Estimates website

arenn: what fuels Indy's explosive growth?

arenn: have you calculated "components of population change", such as: births/deaths and migration? those offer interesting insights into population growth

I think if Akron was as small as a Hamilton... it would definately be part of Cleveland MSA... but Akron city is almost on the same tier as Cleveland city... so its size affords it enough "independence" to be considered its own MSA... as the immediate Akron area is a major employment center... of course... there is enough connectivity between Cleveland and Akron to warrant a CSA.

arenn: what was Cleveland's population growth in 2006? I thought 2007 was worse... but apparently I'm remembering things wrong.

how sad... I had no idea Geauga Lake was gone... it was the first amusement park I visited... at age 4 http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/03/geauga_lakes_wooden_coasters_c.html Geauga Lake's wooden coasters could be auctioned Posted by Shaheen Samavati March 24, 2008 17:45PM Categories: Breaking News If Geauga Lake's three wooden coasters -- the Big Dipper, Villain and Raging Wolf Bobs -- don't sell soon, they'll be auctioned in June. Norton Auctioneers of Coldwater, Mich. will be running an auction on June 17 and 18 to sell any remaining rides, equipment and other assets from the former Bainbridge Township amusement park, said Bryan Edwards, a spokesman for Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., the park's Sandusky-based parent.

these are too funky

damn... I would've loved to have seen Dio in the early 80s!

Congrats, Akron!

Actually, that's an explaination for population decrease in a built-out urban district... but it does not explain sprawl. Demand for housing brought on by decreasing household size can be satiated through increasing density of established districts, spatial expansion of the urbanized area or infill in previously vacant areas within the urbanized area (esp. brownfields, demolished areas, etc.). Sprawl is probably correlated with the trend of decreasing household size... but it's not necessarily an inevitable cause-and-effect. Additionally, spatial expansion of the urbanized area does not have to take the form of sprawl, which is a very specific type of "urban" growth based on personal automobile transportation monoculture, rigid seperation of uses, low-density settlement, degraded civic realm, etc.

Donnie Iris & The Cruisers performing "Sweet Merrilee" at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls in 1981 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0JtLO9vcTo

Slow Economy Likely to Stall Atlantic Yards Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Some residents oppose the Atlantic Yards project over concerns that it will flood the area with new residents and heavy traffic. By CHARLES V. BAGLI Published: March 21, 2008 The slowing economy, weighed down by a widening credit crisis, is likely to delay the signature office tower and three residential buildings at the heart of the $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, the developer said. “It may hold up the office building,” the developer, Bruce C. Ratner, said in a recent interview. “And the bond market may slow the pace of the residential buildings.” Mr. Ratner, chief executive of Forest City Ratner, did not specify the kinds of delays possible, but suggested that construction could be put off for years. His comments are his first public indication that the darkening economy has slowed the ambitious project, spanning 22 acres at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. More at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/nyregion/21yards.html

the charts are actually from the Cleveland Fed's economic analysis of Erie, PA MSA... but I thought comparing Lake Erie metros was an interesting idea... as they often have more in common with each other than with the "interior" portions of their respective states the Erie, PA analysis http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/trends/2008/0208/01regact.cfm the Cleveland Fed website has a fascinating collection of articles, charts and data concerning the economy of Ohio, Western PA, northern WV and eastern KY http://www.clevelandfed.org

Cincinnati economic forecast by PNC Bank (Feb 2008) https://www.pnc.com/webapp/unsec/Requester?resource=/wcm/resources/file/eb1ca409eedd62f/Cincinnati_March.pdf

fascinating pics... it's amazing how distant the early 80s are starting to feel... lots of retail in those pics!

Bar One looks cool... and thanks for the photos of hot girls for those of us who are ignorant... can you elaborate on that building under construction?

how many Ohio teams are in the tournament?

St. Marys, PA (1982-2000) State College, PA (2000-2005) Wooster, OH (2005-2006) Pittsburgh, PA (2006-Present)

I've been to that Sheetz!!!!! :)

is that Sheetz!?