Was Claudius talking about a different place?
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4/14/2009
To the poster that said ashland,ky is a place where most the plants have closed down, i would like to know where he is obtaining this info from. I live in ashland, ky and no plants have shut down in ashland, ever. both the major plants in the area, ak steel and marathon refinery are functioning as always and employ several thousand ashland area residents with wages above the national average. Our medical center is the third largest in the state behind lexington and louisville. The Ashland Town Center Mall has a 98% occupancy rate. The population of ashland has not declined at all. Only 2% since 1990, and that population that left just moved outside the city limits where most of the new housing developments have been in the last 20 yrs. Within a 3 mile radius of the ashland city limits there are another 19,000 residents, which is also the largest unincorporated area in the state of ky. I live here and claudius's post was simply not true in any form. The unemployment rate is 4.6%, what is the national unemployment rate currently? It's far higher than Ashland's. By the way I am obtaining my information from the US census bureaus web site using the 2000 census data. According to it, Ashland is average with the rest of the nation on all categories. So maybe the Ashland claudius is talking about is somewhere else, because the according to the facts it can't be the same place. The only thing that is low in ashland is the cost of living and the crime rate.
i think sperling should remove claudius's post due to the fact that it is untrue and does not correspond with any data found regarding the city of ashland, kentucky. And for kids we have several activities, A YMCA which has the largest membership in the country, 2 medium size shopping malls, a tennis center, a skate park, 3 large parks, an ice skating rink, a water park, disc golf, two community colleges and a state of the art techical school just built in 2006. They are spending approximately 30 million on a new riverfront park, plus we have 3 new grade schools, two extensively renovated schools, a middle school and a college campus style high school which was built in the 60's for 5 million dollars and was just extensively renovated last year that will rival any secondary education facility in the state. We have a great town that maybe isnt growing as fast as some select municipalities in the nation, but is definately no where near the description claudius gave. I am sure this person has never been here. Actually I guarantee that this person hasnt.
richard | Catlettsburg, KY