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Yeah ridiculous people counting on ridiculous contracted things like healthcare. The union has already stepped in. And by the way it's management's fault that the Big 3 are where they are. In recent years who has been the one to have to make concessions? Spare me the one dollar bullsh it. The CEO's have made millions while middle class workers have made concessions. And when the Big 3 CEO's wasted resources to fight more fuel efficient cars. Who suffered? The union workers. And when the executives, insurance industry and Republicans crushed any healthcare reform that actually would have helped both business and employees, they guaranteed higher costs for the company.

The Fed government is providing incentives because otherwise many stronger banks would not want to deal with all of the bad debt. It's not that PNC couldn't buy National City otherwise, it just would be a lot less desirable. Given the historic crisis that we are in, this strongly encourages able banks to salvage the ones that are collapsing rather than have those banks simply collapse.

I believe that such government is an incentive for banks like PNC to make such deals (to cover the bad debt of the purchased bank). Also I do think that banks do have some community obligation, but I don't recall what National City did for Pgh after buying Integra bank in the 90's...?

Thanks for taking us back. Yeah that was a strange time, the city looked great with new addition in PPG and the new Mellon tower, both adding a lot to the skyline. A few others were added as well just before these pictures, but it's still odd to me to see downtown without Fifth Ave Place. But again, the skyline boomed, as the region hit bottom in the mid 80's, though fortunately the region (mostly) moved on and improved.

Retailers don't care how many people there are in a city. They care about how many people are in a relevant radius of their location.

The University continues to grow, but it would be be nice to hear of something, anything positive in improving the downtown area and attracting business.

I think that you are confusing the city police with the local state patrol office that sits on local state route 7 like a militia. However the city police does have a bad reputation yes. It is in the city, but a few miles west of downtown.

I enjoy their market profiles. They do a great job a putting a lot into a concise pdf... this particular data come the IRS I believe.

i believe with this being migration trends, it would not include births and deaths. Counties like Franklin most likely still gained in net population.

Wow, I have never heard such warped comments about Pittsburgh before. :? :-o :?

Reading the their original response is harsh, but it was nice that they did take the time to give you a real answer. And the reality is that they pay $$$ for research on markets on what it takes to sustain a store etc. I don't see this as all bad. If Cincy can build upon other things, then it might ultimately meet the threshold that these upper scale stores need to open up.

Phoenix is the cheap alternative to California. The South is cheaper than the Northeast and I would imagine depending on where we are talking about, parts of the Midwest. The cities grow. People come. Industries are thriving just on home building and service industries. Retail grows as well. People know that they can get a job in city ___, so they move there and the cycle continues and the growth spurs growth. If you don't have that cycle and you don't have good in migration, then it is tougher to get a good pace going. Some of the "fast" growers in the Midwest, Columbus and Indy are only moderate growers nationally.

My point was that Jacksonville wasn't the biggest city in reality and that city populations by themselves are meaningless due to the annexation of land by many cities.

But that is doesn't give any sense of a city's size especially with so many cities that annexed land post WW2. In fact city size I find to be not telling at all. Surburban or urban, if there is a seemless flow of some threshold of density, then it is part of the city, despite political boundaries. Is Jacksonville really the biggest city in Florida?

If we are talking purely on representation, then I think that it makes sense. It's bad enough that despite growing Ohio and similar states are losing representation.

I was speaking collectively over the years. I don't doubt that the city proper would have a Democratic mayor. it just seems to me that Cincy-Dayton (SW in general) is red, that's all.

Yes.

Labor is still a factor, but teh strength of labor has dimished some. However, it the strong voting pattern suggests that the Cleveland overall (multiple issues) is the most liberal part of the state. Not every urban area is liberal though - Hamilton county's results suggest that Cincinnati is a more conservative city.