1.   And residents around Lake Allatoona say they would fight efforts to draw more water from their lake for the metro region.

2.   Consider two scraps of retail roadkill at polar ends of the San Francisco Bay area, a metro region that is to sprawl what Tuscany is to vineyards.

3.   If successful, the venture could expand beyond the metro region.

4.   The decision was an indication of just how bad traffic across the metro region has become since the attack on the World Trade Center.

5.   Walker thinks the metro region needs to slow down and consider the consequences of environmentally irresponsible development.

6.   Washington is the fourth largest market in the nation, ranking behind only the metro regions of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.