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Ottawa is right to reconsider MSA region

Published: May 18, 2009

The Ottawa County planning commission has reopened the lakeshore debate as to the benefit of combining its Metropolitan Statistical Area with Kent County, from which it split off about six years ago. It is a petition to the federal Office of Management and Budget that should be encouraged as the Ottawa County Commission considers the recommendation, and time is short to do so as the 2010 U.S. Census looms.

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