Washington’s unemployment rate falls again, seemingly pointing to a better economy, but this slow-going recovery makes the overall picture a confusing one.
Nine years later, an orca skeleton takes shape at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. The work-in-progress is on display this weekend in Port Townsend.
Benefits paid to unemployed workers in Washington set a record in 2010. And one broad measure of unemployment puts the true jobless rate here at over 18 percent.