good news: it's opportunity time

Home-price gains slow in many cities nationwide - MarketWatch: "The biggest year-over-year decline came in Danville, Ill., where prices fell 11.2%. The rest of the top 10: Detroit, Mich.; Davenport, Iowa; Rockport, Ill.; Cleveland, Ohio; Youngstown, Ohio; Green Bay, Wis.; Yakima, Wash.; Bloomington, Ill.; and Toledo, Ohio. "

Instead of wailing and rending our garments, for a change how about cranking up a killer marketing campaign, with the Columbo-like close of, "And by the way, we're cheap." We do have it all right here, and it's affordable, and we don't have to offer any more tax abatement to be attractive. There are enough incentives there naturally, and it's time to put an end the civic inferiority complex.