Every Colorado city or metro big enough to qualify appeared on the Milken Institute’s 2008 Best Performing Cities Report recently. The report depicts U.S. metropolitan areas with the top economic performance, including job, wage and salary, and high-tech gross domestic product growth over 1- and 5-year periods. All of the Colorado cities except for Boulder and Colorado Springs, which dropped two slots and 14 slots respectively, improved from the 2007 rankings. Greeley-Weld had the highest large-metro placement, coming in at No. 20 out of 200 metros, while Grand Junction came in at No. 5 out of 124 of the small metros. Here’s a look at how all of Colorado’s cities placed on the list:
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