Broadband Politics

While Clark County is booming, Silicon Valley is still sucking wind, according to the illustrious Mercury News:

The county’s unemployment rate remained unchanged from the revised September rate, 7.6 percent, according to the state Employment Development Department’s monthly report. This meant 69,300 county residents were unemployed in October.
So the nation is adding jobs, the state of [...]

Clark County, Washington, just across the Columbia River from Portland, City of Hippies, is one of the most economically depressed areas in the entire country. So why are local officials cheery about the jobs picture? Because there’s a local hiring boom:

Fifteen businesses either relocated or expanded in the county with the help of the development [...]