About Jim Murez
 Jim Murez joined Random Lengths in 2009, as editor of Marple’s Northwest Business Letter. For the previous 15-plus years he was an editor at newspapers around Oregon, most recently at The Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon. He graduated from Syracuse University with journalism and business degrees.
He is married with a young daughter and newborn son who keep him on the go. He enjoys Oregon's outdoors by running, bicycling and golfing.
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About Michael J. Parks
Parks frequently comments on Pacific Northwest economic trends on public radio in
Seattle. Search his name on KUOW's web
site for downloadable podcasts. He is quoted regularly in Pacific Northwest newspapers
and has been quoted in The Economist,
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Parks was quoted in the June 27, 2009, issue of The Economist in an
article on the economy of Washington State.
Michael J. Parks has been studying, writing about and speaking
about the economy and companies of the Pacific Northwest for more than 30 years.
Parks joined The Seattle Times in 1967. He became the newspaper’s financial
editor in the early 1970s. He moved to Marple's Letter in 1977. Parks was owner,
editor and publisher of Marple's Letter from March 1980 to September 2009, when
he was named editor emeritus. The newsletter is named for its founder, the late
Elliot Marple, who pioneered serious business journalism in the Pacific Northwest.
Parks, a native of Spokane, Washington, is a journalism graduate of Seattle University,
and an alumnus of the University of Washington’s School of Communications.
He is an amateur economist, self-taught.
Parks speaks frequently on the outlook for the Pacific Northwest economy for a wide
variety of financial, business, professional and service groups, as well as in the
classroom.
Parks is a former non-employee correspondent (stringer) for Business Week, Advertising
Age, American Banker and The Bond Buyer. Avocations include power walking, attending
opera and world travel.
For more information about Michael, including speaker services, visit Michael's web site at www.MichaelJParks.com.
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