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“It’s kind of a depressed area of Medford, and they’ve been able to make that a place people want to go,” Stine said.

Wahkiakum hasn’t been able to convince voters in this rural, depressed area to approve a bond measure because it would dramatically increase property taxes.

The Lukoil-owned site in Sicily refines a fifth of Italy's crude and directly employs about 1,000 people in an economically depressed area.

“Just think … of an up-and-coming ‘real’ student coming from an economically depressed area that could have benefited from that free admissions spot and degree.

“It was in an economically depressed area … and vacant for many years,” said Colin Tarbert, president and chief executive of the Baltimore Development Corp.