CB seys STL’s pop declined 2008 over 2007. Of course it declined the several previous years before that, except that gooberfuck at Room 200 pulled propaganda strings to get the CB to “correct” its findings, i.e. lie.
The legerdemain used to “raise” St. Louis’s population for the several few years was to count the number of people a renovated or new loft or residence could house, and assume that there were that many people living there, even if there really were not.