The income base of the state as a whole is growing fairly well.

The bottom line is really the bottom line [on income statements] in the stock market and earnings just don't look good. The jobs data wasn't terrible but the economy has run into a wall. Basically, there's nothing to churn the market to the upside. And another 800-pound gorilla in the room is Iraq.

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

In Brevard especially, you have a 65-plus crowd that has that disposable income looking for ways to spend their money.

We're looking at other Portland locations as well. But from income levels to consumers' preferences, everything seems to come together for us at the intersection of Tualatin, Lake Oswego and Tigard.

You have to worry that allowing such income, especially when it is so closely associated with Pombo politically, is a reward.