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| | Louisville becomes lean, less mean after city/county merger |
 | | Louisville by any other name -- Loo-ee-ville, Loo-uh-ville, Lewiz-ville -- is still Louisville, said Cary Stemle, editor of the city's weekly paper, the Louisville Eccentric Observer. |
 | | That's why a lot of people living and working in the new Metro Louisville, including Stemle, kind of roll their eyes when they hear that Louisville, once the 65th largest American city with a population of 256,000, is suddenly the 16th largest, with nearly 700,000 residents. |
 | | Greater Louisville Inc., the metro-wide chamber of commerce that itself resulted from unifying city and county chamber offices, has spent $250,000 to spread that message nationwide, through a new public relations campaign. |
| www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20030907louisville0907p3.asp (1857 words) |
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