Latest Population growth and decline News
Editorial Roundup:
Omaha World Herald. March 27, 2020 Let's plan well to meet Omaha area's population growth. Long-term civic success doesn’t just happen. It requires community vision, sound planning and collaboration. As the Omaha area moves toward the 1 million mark in population in the next few years, our area will need...
Report: Denver leads Colorado's statewide population growth
DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau has released a report showing the population of Denver increased more than any other county in the state of Colorado last year. The city and county of Denver has 727,211 residents, a 1.5% increase or about 11,000 more people compared with mid-2018, the Denver Post...
Texas is bigger: Lone Star State's metros lead decade growth
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Everything really is bigger in Texas. Three metro areas in the Lone Star State had some of the biggest population gains over the past decade, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Dallas increased by 1.2 million people, the most of any U.S. metro area,...
Report: 3 Utah areas top nation in population growth
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau has released a report on the fastest-growing regions across the country, citing three Utah areas. Wasatch County was listed as the third fastest-growing county in the past decade, while St. George and Provo-Orem were on the top 10 list of fastest-growing metro...
Census figures show decline of New York's rural areas
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rural counties suffered the sharpest population drops in New York since 2010, according to census estimates released Thursday, the latest sign of a long-running exodus of people and jobs. Counties with the highest rate of loss in the nine-year period include Chenango (6.5%) and Delaware...
Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ March 24 The Charlotte Observer/The News & Observer on the state prison population's risk of the coronavirus: The COVID-19 outbreak has driven many North Carolinians into voluntary confinement at home to lower their chance of getting or spreading the...
A diner and its biscuits provide a reprieve in small-town NC
NASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Dan Odom sat in his pickup truck in front of the Nashville Diner and waited for the lights to come on. It was a few minutes before 5:30 a.m. on March 19, more than an hour before sunrise. In these abnormal times Odom sought normalcy, and a biscuit. A lifelong resident of Nash County,...
California awakes to new reality: Homebound amid outbreak
LOS ANGELES (AP) — While California awoke Friday to the reality of a near lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, it was business as usual for Rick Curnutt and his family, who were hunkered down in China during the early days of the outbreak and spent two weeks in self-quarantine when they returned...
California governor issues statewide stay-at-home order
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's 40 million residents should stay home indefinitely and venture outside only for essential jobs, errands and some exercise, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, warning that the coronavirus threatens to overwhelm the state's medical system. The move, the most sweeping by...
Next primaries offer contrast between nation's past, future
CLEVELAND (AP) — Sharing the primary calendar Tuesday are two states that represent different pieces of America: Ohio, a largely white state that’s barely growing and looking to rebound from a decline in manufacturing, and Arizona, a state where one-third of the population is Latino and growth is...
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