Word: metropolitane
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...recalls "probably the most radical thing we did": one warm spring night, after the Metropolitan District Commission announced that it wanted to tear down trees along Memorial Drive to build overpasses, a group of students walked down to the river and began chanting "Save the Sycamores" in protest...
...entries are striving to fill what many see as a substantial gap in local TV news. In large metropolitan areas, stations cannot come close to covering the welter of communities that make up their region -- especially with more and more air time being devoted to sensational crimes, celebrity fluff and network promotions ("The real story behind Switched at Birth -- at 11"). Cable systems, which serve more circumscribed areas, have jumped in with a fresh twist: the news they provide is hyperlocal...
Simmering Suburbs. Four out of 5 Americans live in what the Census Bureau calls metropolitan areas. But this catch-all term can be misleading because such areas typically include the outlying sprawl that surrounds urban centers; moreover, many communities that call themselves cities actually have the character of suburbs...
...resentment at the ranch's sale, most have accepted Zenchiku as a friendly presence. Morse feels that any remaining suspicion toward the company is similar to the feelings townspeople would have had about any outsider. "They're as worried about Californians," he says, noting that the previous owner, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., is based in New York City -- a place hardly more familiar to Montanans than Tokyo...
...biggest complaints of rural residents is that Las Vegas has not done enough to save the water it has. Per-capita water consumption in the metropolitan area has consistently been among the highest of Western cities: 366 gal. daily compared with 200 gal. in Los Angeles. Recent restrictions have reduced Vegas' consumption...