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Under a new proposal, a metro area would have to have at least 100,000 people in its core city to count.

In Corvallis, Oregon, the state designates certain funding sources to metropolitan statistical areas and any change to the city's status could create a ripple effect, particularly when it comes to transportation funding.

Move over, Muncie: Five Indiana cities could lose status as metro areas FREE NEWSLETTERS Move over, Muncie. Take a powder, Terre Haute. Those Hoosier cities are two of 144 that the federal government is proposing to downgrade from the metropolitan statistical area designation, and it could be more than just a matter of semantics. Officials in some of the affected cities worry that the change could have adverse implications for federal funding and economic development. Under the new proposal, a metro area would have to have at least 100,000 people in its core city to count as an MSA, double th...

Bye-bye, Bismarck. So long, Sheboygan. Those cities in North Dakota and Wisconsin, respectively, are two of 144 that the federal government is proposing to downgrade from the metropolitan statistical area…

Bye-bye, Bismarck. So long, Sheboygan. Those cities in North Dakota and Wisconsin, respectively, are two of 144 that the federal government is proposing to downgrade from the metropolitan statistical area designation, and it could be more than just a matter of semantics. Officials in some of the affected cities worry that the change could have adverse implications for federal funding and economic development. Under the new proposal, a metro area would have to have at least 100,000 people in its core city to count as an MSA, double the 50,000-person threshold that has been in place for the pas...