Neal Fried presented the Mat Su Economic Report to the Valley Board of Realtors this week.  I have the power point presentation if anyone would like me to email it to them.  His report highlighted that our population continued to grow in 2007 with our population over 70,0000.  Jobs grew at 1% for 2007 which was the slowest growth since 1996.  He also shared that residential sales were down in 2007 as compared to 2004, 2005, & 2006.  If you want the monthly report you can sign up at Alaska Economic Trends.