Year: 2006

Here’s a pair of mostly glowing articles about just how stupendous our state’s job market is, and how much better it’s getting every day. The roaring construction and aerospace industries helped Washington add 7,900 jobs last month, pushing the statewide unemployment rate back down to 4.6 percent. That matched January’s jobless rate, before an influx…

Here it comes… with the housing market in Olympia beginning to experience more signs of a slowdown than anywhere else in the Puget Sound, it’s time to bring out the excuses. The order of the day? Gas prices. Thurston County’s real estate market has been one of the state’s hottest because median prices here are…

We’ve already done the March numbers to death, but the late story from Inman News caught my attention for its amusing headline and subtitle: Northwest real estate sales slide Inventory growth helps lift home prices Home sales in western Washington fell 9.1 percent in March from a year ago, as prices posted another month of…

Here’s a "Reader’s View" editorial from the Seattle Times that I bookmarked a while back and apparently lost in the shuffle. In my small neighborhood, I can point out several recent density actions. You decide if they were for the better or for the worse. On the corner of Norman and Bradner in the Mount…