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The August issue of Coast River Business Journal is now available online and in print at numerous locations in the Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington region. For a list of locations you can pick-up a copy of Coast River Business Journal, view our Where to Find a Copy page. For complete access to any of our issues, current or in the archives, become a subscriber.

In the August 2008 issue …

Rising costs hit local businesses hard

Raw materials spike, and consumer prices rise. It’s hard not to notice these days that prices for consumer goods are rising across the board. While conventional wisdom has it that fuel prices are affecting everything else, that’s not necessarily the whole story. Read the full story

Housing crash or the new norm?

The surprisingly affordable coast real estate market. On the national level, real estate news is nothing to cheer about. According to Global Insight, a U.S. firm specializing in economic analysis and forecasting, in June single-family home prices across the country fell for the third straight period. And in the first quarter of 2008, almost 85 percent of the nation’s housing market declined. Read the full story

Publisher's Note
This month: A new look, a new printer, a new format, and a new publishing schedule

You likely didn’t need that headline grabber to notice we’ve made a few changes this month. These improvements required that we take our printing business to a digital printer in Portland. While we regret taking our printing dollars out of the local area, it was necessary to get the enhancements we wanted for our readers, and especially our advertisers — the very people who make this publication possible. Read the full story

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