June 29th, 2011 02:00pm Economist calls Sonoma County outlook ‘fairly optimistic’ By Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter SANTA ROSA — The pace of Sonoma County’s economic improvement will increase in the second half of this year and into 2012 with improvement in the state and national economy, according to an economist at a Sonoma County Economic Development Board conference this morning. “Our outlook is fairly optimistic,” said Steve Cochrane, Ph.D., of Moody’s Analytics to the sold-out crowd at the Hyatt (2 comments)