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STORM WINS: Taurasi can sell all she wants, the Storm found a different way to win -- with a real three-pointer by Bird with 6.4 seconds remaining in the game. "All I said to the refs is to, 'Look back,'" Cash said of the questionable call to end the second overtime. "The same way we watch film and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake,' hopefully they'll look back and realize that obviously was a mistake as well. In a game like that, it's (throwing up a shot just to get the call) nothing you should reward. But before I get fined, I'm just going to leave it alone." Agler said he probably made the wrong call in yelling for his players to draw a foul. He doesn't expect to play the possession the same in the future. "If we had it to do over again, we probably would have played it straight up," He said. "Diana is extremely cagey. She knows what's going on. She was waiting and baited Swin to come out and shot. It's no one's fault. We did in and had to deal with the consequences. We're fortunate we won." The Mercury is now 2-7 in games decided by four points or less while the Storm is 4-0. A nod has to go to Willingham, who had four offensive rebounds to go with eight points. Her one defensive board setup Bird's winning play. All of the Storm starters finished in double figures, including Jackson, who had 31 points and a season-high 18 boards. Taurasi finished with a season-high 44 while DeWanna Bonner had 18 points and seven rebounds off the bench. "It was a regular-season game, money-time comes later," Phoenix coach Corey Gaines said. "No let down, sometimes you lose games, sometimes it's a good loss. I take it as a good loss. They fought hard, they didn't quit when we were down ten, that's a good loss."
From the Midwest to the Pacific, job seekers are heading to Texas ...
Just don’t tell that to a stream of new residents who are "voting with their feet" that Texas is the safest place to ride out the storm and the place to be when the economy recovers.
Even in the midst of a recession, economists, demographers and relocation experts believe the Lone Star State is on the cusp of becoming The New California.
Or maybe it already is.
For people seeking economic opportunity, Texas is becoming what California has been since the Great Depression, says Los Angeles urbanist and author Joel Kotkin. Texas recently "ran the table" in a recent list of "Best Cities for Jobs" prepared by Kotkin for New Geography and Forbes. Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Dallas were ranked as the top five large metro areas in the country to find a job. If that weren’t enough to get the moving van loaded, McAllen and Odessa top the mid-sized and small city categories, respectively. Among 333 metropolitan areas, Texas has a remarkable 20 in the top 100.
Relocation surveys show that Texas remains a top destination for people leaving other states. Its automobile registrations continue to climb, and the Texas housing market has avoided the double-digit declines other fast-growing states have seen. While the unemployment rate has risen in Texas, it’s nowhere near as high as most of the country, underscoring the state’s economic resiliency even as the downturn deals out its lumps.
Kotkin, a professor at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., who analyzed U.S. Labor Department statistics for his report, says Texas’ dominance at the top of the jobs list is unprecedented.
"Part of it is a function of the economic collapse of Florida, Phoenix and California. The collapse is still important in Texas, but Texas has had more balanced growth and that’s more sustainable," he said in a telephone interview while navigating an L.A. freeway.
"Part is the nature of Texas: People don’t move there for climate and scenery," Kotkin said. "They move to Texas for jobs and affordable housing. People make economic decisions to go to these places. They don’t go for perfect weather where you can surf one day and ski the next."
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