i've been afraid that atlanner's losing whatever edge it's had over the last 30 or so years---the yahoo-dominated legislature's refusal to support marta or any kind of commuter rail automatically puts us a disadvantage to, e.g., dallas and charlotte, as do a succession of city leaders who really don't have much of a vision for the city --- the general antipathy toward intelligent land use and planning doesn't help, nor will this:

Saturday's Wall Street Journal reports that many of the past decade's "youth magnet" locations are losing their appeal as economic opportunities whither in cities like Phoenix, Seattle, Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Las Vegas, and others which led the nation in attracting young college grads from 2005 to 2007.

that should be "wither," not "whither," dumass