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Article: Booming economy of the '90s passes many smaller cities by.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 20, 1999
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1/3 In Buffalo, N.Y., things were looking so bleak a couple of years ago that officials considered voting the city out of existence.
In Kalamazoo, Mich., even though three of its biggest employers have disappeared, the job market has been incredibly tight - because so many of the city's residents have fled.
In Gary, Ind., so much has gone wrong for so long that the city has become a national poster child for the absolute worst urban America has to offer.
What these very different cities have in common is their size - or, more precisely, their lack of it. Buffalo, Kalamazoo and Gary - along with scores of other small and mid-sized cities - ...