So long, Sheboygan: 144 cities could lose status as metro areas
By: Associated Press
March 8, 2021
9:42 am
A crew from Northeast Asphalt rolls new blacktop at Sixth Street and Center Avenue in Sheboygan. The Wisconsin city is one of 144 that the federal government is proposing to downgrade from the metropolitan statistical area designation. (File photo by Corey Hengen)
By MIKE SCHNEIDER
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.