This, I am sure, is the news we are all waiting for: Unemployment hits 8.5 percent and climbing.

Boeing exec’s pay will climb with McNerney receiving $14.8 million in salary, bonuses and perks. He apparently is being rewarded for making the world wait for the 787 “Dreamliner” and planning to lay off 10,000 workers.

Microsoft will be one of the first recipients in our state to get money from the stimulus package to build a bridge, making it easier to enter their empire. Had no idea that company is so short on funds.

China says it is worried about U.S. investments with an estimated $1 trillion in U.S. government debt.

Am I crazy, over wrought, or is it just a bad dream?

Jutta Kurtak, Bellevue