“…cauldrons of creativity where the most important ideas and the organizations of tomorrow are centered. They attract the best and the brightest. The are great places to work and live.”

The cities are listed in categories like Urban innovators, culture centers, startup hubs, and high-tech hot spots.

Facing claims that could exceed $200 million, the diocese may choose this route rather than go to trial in about 150 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by priests.

According to Brom’s pastoral statement, if abuse victims cannot be fairly compensated through ongoing settlement negotiations without “jeopardizing our overall mission, . . . the diocese may be forced to file a Chapter 11 reorganization in bankruptcy court.”

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Among major U.S. cities, workers in Boston had the highest incidence of feeling they have their dream jobs, at 37 percent, followed by Sacramento at 26 percent, San Francisco at 23 percent, Philadelphia at 22 percent, Salt Lake City at 20 percent, and Dallas and Portland, both at 19 percent.

Cities with the least number of workers in dream jobs were San Diego at 7 percent, Phoenix and Detroit at 10 percent and Atlanta and Miami at 11 percent.

Source: Union Tribune Most U.S. workers not in ‘dream jobs,’ survey says

Through at least 2015, San Diego County will be the fastest-growing region in California after the Sacramento area, said economist Stephen Levy, who founded the center in 1969.

Levy, who was trained at MIT and Stanford, projects that job levels will grow by 20.7 percent in the county from 2005 through 2015, compared with 17.3 percent in California and 13.4 percent in the nation.

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