James McCafferty

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WWU’s Center for Economic and Business Research Releases Snohomish County 2015 Business Optimism Survey 2016-01-19
Could Chinese investment return to Whatcom County?

In his office on Newmarket Street in the Barkley District, Patrick Starr entered search terms into an online real estate database and came up with a list of properties for sale for more than $4 million in King County.
An untrained eye might not have noticed the prevalence of the number…

2015-11-18
Whatcom Economy: Job estimate studies can be useful

We at the Center for Economic and Business Research get asked frequently to prepare economic impact studies.

We inevitably ask ourselves whether the resulting job estimates are useful (should anyone care about the job estimates?) and whether they tend to be accurate. We think the answer…

2015-09-28
Border towns enjoy bonanza: packages, tax revenue pile up

The Lone Jack Saloon was once among the many taverns in a border town that catered heavily to Canadian carousing.

The stage where cancan girls used to dance is still there, adorned with a painting of a miner panning for gold. But the floor now serves as the warehouse for Ship Happens, the…

2015-06-26
Southbound border traffic into Whatcom picks up in second quarter

Southbound border crossings picked up the pace in the second quarter, but the boost wasn't significant enough to indicate a new trend.

About 4.1 million people crossed the five border crossings into Whatcom County in the second quarter, up about 121,000…

2014-08-13
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