Unemployment Slightly Up in Clallam County
As of the end of November, Clallam County's unemployment rate is 8.5 percent. At the end of the previous month the rate was 8.3 percent. Clallam County's unemployment rate is about half a percentage point lower than the rate last year at this time.
The statewide unemployment rate is 6.5 percent.
The statewide unemployment rate is 6.5 percent.
posted by Tom Harper at 8:32 PM
59 Comments:
Well, there's one less dog "shelter" in business.
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores always get respectable if they last long enough.
Tom's headline :
"Unemployment Slightly Up in Clallam County"
KONP's Headline:
"Unemployment rises again in Clallam County"
PDN's Headline :"Unemployment rate remains steady on Peninsula"
And we're still third in the state for opiate deaths, too! Why isn't the Chamber of Commerce promoting this? I mean, if you're an unemployed drug abuser, Clallam County is a dreamland!
Yes, this is evidence that everything is fine. Just fine. I told you is it fine. Now you see things are fine.
Likely contributing to the unemployment increase: the anticipation of Nippon halting paper production in favor of it becoming a less labor-intensive stand-alone electrical power generating station.
So here's an idea. Instead of spending $850k (plus $1.6m of my tax money from federal grants) to build a park that has no direct benefits to the residents of the city, spend that money setting up an urban farming program. There are plenty of empty lots around the city, some owned by the city and others that could be rented or given a property tax exemption. People would get jobs, exercise, useful skills and healthy food.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Port Angeles!
Hope you had a nice year!
Next year, will be much of the same from us - we hope to take away your affordable health care, start a war and try and continue the ones we have, decrease your food stamps and welfare, defund Planned Parenthood, cut Head Start, let foreign companies build more facilities to burn our forests for energy and pollute the air, overfish, cut environmental regulations, and trash the new Pope! HE'S SO NEGATIVE!!!! And shop at Cracker Barrel. That's key. That way, Cracker Barrel can afford the planned expansion to hundreds of towns in rural America, places like Port Angeles, so you can buy Duck Dynasty msd. in a "local" store and won't have to buy it online. And voters, too many of those, esp. Democrats. We plan to make it more difficult for them to vote. And we will continue to train every republican on the grass level, to smack down anything any liberal says, in any context, and brand them as negative. Anyone, anytime. This is our greatest tool. Hail Mitch! Oh, we are going to continue to try and cut funding to the State Dept. but bitch incessantly when an embassy gets attacked. That's America!
This message brought to you by the Republican Party. Merry Christmas!
Oh, good one! Urban Farming in Port Angeles! You are WELCOME to start a pea patch in your yard, or patio. Zoning does allow that, but no sales, please. And republicans don't want you to produce your own milk or eggs, for your own consumption, in the city. Don't even think about it.
Merry Christmas!
This message brought to you by the Republican Party and the Clallam County Realtors Assn./PA City Council.
Nippon won't technically stop making paper because it's the paper plant attached to the incinerator that makes it "green" energy which sells for much more to California.
See? As was pointed out above, you only need to re-phrase the headline, as the PDN did, to make everything okay.
The PDN is being POSITIVE, while Tom and KONP are being NEGATIVE. Understand?
So, we see the solution to our problems. Oh! Sorry. How silly of me. There are no problems. Only opportunities.
Port Angeles is just like every other old mill town. See? Nothing different is done here. We're ALL the same. There are no problems unique to Port Angelres, because that would be a NEGATIVE view.
Port Angeles did sue little old ladies who walked the neighborhoods in the cold and rain to collect signatures. This is what ALL old mill towns do. This is nothing we should be concerned about. Being concerned is NEGATIVE.
Suing little old ladies for collecting signatures was a GOOD thing. It allowed us all to see that we have nothing to be concerned about. That our community's leadership was working SO hard for our best interests, and it gave us yet another opportunity to thank them.
We are happy, because we live in an old mill town where everything is good, just like everyone else!
I don't have to seek employment, lucky me.
Enjoy a nice laid back day tomorrow.
Nippon will keep the paper mill "operating" only long enough to get the millions of dollars the National Park Service has set aside for them as part of the Elwha Restoration Act. As soon as they reach the minimum threshold for meeting their requirements, goodbye mill. It's that simple. Then Nippon will take that money (I think it's around $7.1 million - sitting in an interest-earning account) back to Japan.
The energy they make will be sold elsewhere. The profits they make will go elsewhere. And Port Angeles will "enjoy" the "benefits" of a handful of jobs and tons of pollution - pollution that will spew out 24/7 year after year.
Thanks, Nippon! Thanks, Cherie! Can't wait to panhandle on that fancy and fine new waterfront!
Zoning can be changed, Conditional Use Permits can be granted. The only obstacles are the ones we create for ourselves or allow to remain unchallenged.
The produce wouldn't even have to be sold. It could go to the Food Bank and other feed the hungry poor people operations. There certainly will be enough demand with the way things are going.
"And republicans don't want you to produce your own milk or eggs, for your own consumption, in the city. Don't even think about it."
Source?
11:59 AM, December 24, 2013
Oh, sorry I'm late, Hon, but while you were typing your inane bullshit... I was out delivering better than a thousand (of my own) dollars to make sure that certain underprivileged kids have some kind of Christmas... See, that's a POSITIVE thing.
And you're not.
Merry Christmas, dipshit. -WTF
I just got home from a little help job and there was a bottle of 100 proof imported Rumple Minze peppermint schnapps on my doorstep. Fug, I'll have to save that for a special occasion.
Republicans don't like milk and eggs, period. Don't you fucking know that, you simple, dumbass, pea-brained imbecile? I mean, are you your own cousin or what?
Go fete some shit up, you teabagging asswipe. Or get a dog. Or fete your dog's shit up.
Get it, moron?
(I'm saving WTF? the trouble of responding)
I hear there's someone that's likely to be becoming unemployed in Thurston County soon.
@ Anon 6:55
Very funny! LOL!
WTF? : "I was out delivering better than a thousand (of my own) dollars to make sure that certain underprivileged kids have some kind of Christmas"
Well, I was out washing the feet of the poor and diseased, earlier. Then I went to the hospital where I donated one of my kidneys to a needy homeless child. Later, I sold my house so that I could donate the money to help single mothers who have been abused.
Tomorrow, I'll sell my car, and walk through the downtown handing the money to the people I meet.
With anything left over, I'll find a poor kitten to rescue.
11:49 PM, December 24, 2013
And that's why geography and politics are irrelevant to this discussion.
Port Angeles isn't your problem.
You're an asshole - That's the problem...
Today I'll be out again and visiting some kids who's dad got sick and lost his job a while back. Their Mom just got done rehabbing for an opiate jones she acquired during cancer treatment...Thy're conservative, Christian, and 180 degrees off from me politically and socially on everything...
...and not a god-damn one of them complains. Ever. They just do their best.
I'm sure you think they're stupid too.
Ooooohh.. I'm SOO in awe of WTF? !!
Why can't we all be as wonderful as he is?
Beat me more, please.
I went out on the spit and fed the gulls, took the old lady next door to the Asian Buffet, got a room next to the bar we can smoke in.
After the gift exchange I'll go to my room with my sex toys and see if my present shows up.
Hahahahaha
Geeezz.
I was enjoying the topics here, until it became all about WTF?, all the time.
I don't have to agree, to enjoy hearing what perople have to say. But having everything be turned into someone constantly insulting everyone/anyone for voicing their views is getting a bit old.
WTF - bring a black person with you. Most very conservative Christians would complain, if you did that. Maybe not at the time, but later. Complaining is situational.
1:47 - It was a research experiment/doctoral thesis and has been repeated several times. I believe it was called "The effects of playing really loud rooster sounds at country clubs". Drives them crazy. They won't pay the cocktail bills, makes them pinch the ladies booties more, which is a bizarre side effect. It's horrible. This social phenomena plays out all over the world. I believe the Hilton in Cancun, their website explains it best.
Oooooh, WTF? ...! I'm just a twitter over your amazing exploits! To think ... visiting impoverished children! They didn't have any communicable diseases, did they? I mean, one never knows what impoverished children may have ... and one certainly doesn't wish to catch anything. But still, the thrill of meeting impoverished children! Dear me!
Tell me, were they encrusted with grime and were they wearing ragged clothing? I always think impoverished children in ragged clothing are so endearing. At least those one sees photographs of. And grime is piquant, especially during the holidays, don't you think?
Do keep us informed!
Anonymous said...
So here's an idea. Instead of spending $850k (plus $1.6m of my tax money from federal grants) to build a park that has no direct benefits to the residents of the city, spend that money setting up an urban farming program. There are plenty of empty lots around the city, some owned by the city and others that could be rented or given a property tax exemption. People would get jobs, exercise, useful skills and healthy food.
10:56 AM, December 24, 2013
See, there's an IDEA... Might be worth discussing beyond a snarky dismissal.
Just floating around, lost in the continuum of everybody's bullshit.
Happens all the time in here...It's like sorting through the piss-stained mattresses and broken appliances to find the good stuff.
So many big companies, the type of companies that would make a dent in the rate, hate Obamacare and Medicaid expansion. It's a shame Port Angeles is so progressive, and such a shame it is in such an expensive state to do business in, or Port Angeles could position itself as a community of knuckledragging teabaggers that would be thrilled to have such companies locate there. Pea patches are neat, though! WTF - Do you like fresh peas? Do you want a job? Do you like warm weather?
Seriously people. Look how inept Clallam Co. was in dealing with the "dog" shelter. Or if you prefer, the dog "shelter".
The comments from officials Fork's summed up:
"DUUUUR, we can't do anything" "And why would we do anything? What would we do?" "DUUUUR" "DUUUUUR" "We don't know anything" "DUUUUR" "Visit Forks, it's normally polite" "DUUUUR"
The comments from everyone else:
"DUUUUR" "DUUUUR" "DUUUUUR"
One guy, from a part of the country where apparently everyone isn't insane, $5,000 later, I'll say it, DUUUUUUUR.
The most inane, yet boring spectacle I've ever seen. Never thought someone would top the bulldozer guy, in such a bizarre yet unnoteworthy, mundane way, so quickly.
Nothing good will ever happen in Port Angeles. Yeah, negative blogs like this don't help, and neither does the shit rag PDN, but the real problem is the lack of local elected leaders. No one good runs for office, only crooks and dopes. Then, said crooks and dopes make stupid decision after stupid decision, to benefit the favored few and to maintain the totally dysfunctional status quo.
This process repeats itself every time there's an election. Every so often you get someone good and gutsy, like Mania was, but then they get driven out of town. And the decline continues. Crooks and dopes, crooks and dopes.
WTF ... all your so-called altruism can't make up for the fact that you're a contemptible human being.
Great! Okay, WTF? You go stand before the City Council, and get this going.
You stand up there, and tell the Mayor she SHOULDN'T support buying the tent, and SHOULD say NO to the Juan de Fuca and Crab Fest folks.
Please DO let us know when you plan to address the Council on this, won't you?
The Juan de Fuca Festival is LAME. Dan Maguire is also lame. Year after year of safe, boring, no-name acts. Ugh. I hope the city tells them to buy their own damn tent.
They should buy their own damn tent but the city wants its nose in everything, and have control over it all.
The olive oil store opening in PT article was interesting. In the context of the endless parade of people standing outside, and "poo pooing" the idea, and the lady who opened the store, plugging away, despite the negativity, being able to hear the comments of people standing outside, every hour, of every day, day after day, ok, valid point.
But WHAT A DUMB IDEA!
Just kidding HA HA HA!
1:48 - ha ha. You're right....ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz. I changed my mind on the tent, just because I laughed so hard reading your comment, it perked me up, "slapped some sense into me", made me reach for my FUCKING WALLET, reminding me what a snoozefest the JDFF is. Call me a "flip flopper".
See, good things do happen on here!
@1:48
Oh, I think we will see the Council vote to spend the money to buy that tent. That is the way things go, here.
Years ago a co-worker of mine told me I wouldn't believe how many people were on meth in P.A. This was 15 years ago. Since then the number has likely doubled or tripled. Enough said.
I take back all the times I've used the word teabagger here. Some would say that's negative.
We are run by Na#is!!!!
Squatters being arrested is a bit extreme???...with no bail???????????
Fucking idiots.
6:08 - That's not it. We're stoners and beer drinkers mostly, not tweakers. All the tweakers live in Monroe, Concrete, Sultan, Darrington, etc. Our problem is republicans. And the vindictive, theiving rugrats (unemployed home builders) that pop out of their vaginas.
PENINSULA DAILY TEABAG/PORT ANGELES/1:44AM/12/27/2013 UPDATE: STATE TROOPER THAT CAUSED TWO WRECKS AND KILLED SOMEONE DROVE HOME AFTER WORK TODAY, BALANCED HIS CHECKBOOK, AND MADE A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH.
Fire at the mill! Or, put another way, just a different kind of air pollution coming from the mill!
You're still not getting it. There is no "Stand before the City Council" ...Fuck them. (and PABA & PADA, the Chamber and the EDC... I think we can agree they are no help, and almost always, some kind of hindrance.... Look at the occasional positive stuff that manages to happen around here, and you won't find 'em anywhere near it (except to try to take credit in some way while they get their pictures taken, after the work is done)
See, YOU (not the council, not your mom, not your fantasy alter ego...) contact the owners of these vacant lots till you find somebody amenable to your garden idea. Then you plant stuff. Then you see what happens...
Or you can join the pity party. See who gets some spuds first.
We were told Port Angeles is no different than any other old mill town, and that the perceived problems people talk about are nobody'e fault. Not the Dems, not the Repubs. Just the way things are in an old mill town.
I'm reminded of a few things that make me question this. Is this in fact, true?
How about NOAA's search and selection for a new center of west coast operations, a year or so ago? Port Angeles was one of a number of towns investigated. And rejected. Why, did they say? "No quality of life".
Hello??
It's as if they did a study, and that was the result. Ooops. They did.
So, as people discuss ways to cure Port Angeles of it's problems, it may be helpful to consider what those who have done an honest comparative analysis have found out, and try to address those findings.
You may think everything is fine, fine, fine. And that is just fine. But if people want things to change, and be different, they may do well to look beyond their own self justified perceptions.
"See, there's an IDEA... Might be worth discussing beyond a snarky dismissal."
Hmmm. "Discussing". I didn't realize there was much "discussing" going on, with all the insults that seem to be the only responses!
"We were told Port Angeles is no different than any other old mill town, and that the perceived problems people talk about are nobody'e fault. Not the Dems, not the Repubs. Just the way things are in an old mill town."
And blah de blah blah blah...
Nobody said "nobody's to blame"
- Just not your favorite targets.
Newport, OR. has never been a grubby mill-town. About as valid a comparison as Victoria BC.
Try Longview, Camas, Aberdeen,WA or Lowell, Mass. or York. Pa. And on and on...
When we hear about collusion and corruption between city leaders and business, that's just in Port Angeles, right?
When we hear about a Meth EPIDEMIC, that only means in Port Angeles, right? Nowhere else.
Keep typing. According The Law of Averages,eventually even you will type something worth reading .
So I visited friends and family down in Olympia for Christmas, and the word from my friend who works at the state is that there's a letter going round outlining all Matthew Randazzo's exploits. Sounds like it got sent to lots of people, and has lots of dirt. Speaking, as we were, of unemployment.
Keep typing. According The Law of Averages,eventually even you will type something worth reading .
They gave a bunch of monkeys pens and they ended up with a fucking bible, biggest piece of fucked up bullshit you ever would try to read.
How many towns sue their citizens for circulating a petition?
See? No problems, other than those that want things to be better.
So, smile as you walk past those empty store fronts. Laugh heartily as you see those homeless people, some of the only people you WILL see on the streets downtown
Relish in the scenery of smokestacks and log yards, reminding yourself how beautiful Port Angeles REALLY is.
Everything is fine, fine, fine.
That is why the people who got off the cruise ship headed right over to the ferry to Victoria, right? Because of the people who are "negative", right?
WTF - So, you make some valid points! You are a spirited debater, and have passion. But, if you ran for office, your slogan would be, "Government is not the solution, it is the PROBLEM!" I appreciate being able to discuss Port Angeles with you, whoever you are, perhaps only in my head, in these last days of being able to say &*%$ and @#%& anonymously and in context on the internet. Bla bla bla, I know.
BBC - Uggh. Did your girlfriend deflate already? Seriously, you were destined to be a spiritual leader, to share your insight on how we all can get along, and you failed, and you are bitter. Be nice. Repent. God still loves you. I say repent only because you will be happier, will see it was all meant to be.
1:41 - Thank you. Kilmer is such a SQUISHY MODERATE, I bet he goes after him in the primary.
CRAP, I MISSED 4:20 AGAIN : Maybe spirit isn't what you think it is...
Just because I'm a minister doesn't mean I have to be a christian. Or that I wouldn't kill some fucker that was fucking with me.
Where is the debate? All I see is putting people down for their comments!
The Juan de Fuca Festival is LAME.
True that... But it's a lot more fun if you mispronounce Fuca.
BBC - Maybe, maybe. Maybe someday you can tell me all about it.
Maybe the Juan de Fuca Fest can use that Bubble Tent the city got years ago... I don't believe they've ever used it, although I really wanted to have a grand opening of the bubble tent with all our civic leaders. We can then roll the tent into the bay and ship them off, see where they land... Maybe they'll still have some of the taxpayer provided buffet of shrimp cocktails when they land in Siberia...
I'm glad this City can count on all the commenters in this forum to run for City Council next time to actually make a difference rather than wasting your time ranting at each other...you all are making such positive improvements to this community at the moment...very impressive. Congratulations
@ 7:57 PM..... Those that are intelligent and wise enough to not get into politics are punished by those are in politics.
But if you think you could make a difference I encourage you to run for an office.
Seems to be a bit of a theme, lately. The problems in Port Angeles result from people who are not all happy about how screwed up things really are.
Okay. I get it. Like so many things, if we just ignore what the problems really are, and focus on how pretty the spring flowers are, everything will be fine.
Maybe this is why we have the problems we do have. Because pretending they don't exist doesn't work!
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