After decades of population loss, the city has stopped shrinking, according to revised Census Bureau estimates delivered to the city earlier this week.
On Monday, the city received a letter from the Census Bureau raising the 2008 population estimate by about 93,000.
My urban hellhole is far from perfect, and there are neighborhoods which live up to the hellhole name, but there is a slowly increasing portion of the city which provides something which is in pretty short supply in this country, decent and relatively affordable walkable urban living.