Pulling the state out of recession for whose benefit?  Land owners, real estate developers, construction worker labor unions, and county property tax collectors?  I think this is similar to arguing everything is fine because the "official" unemployment rate is low, and GDP and tax revenues are growing, when the most meaningful economic measure IMO is per capita incomes relative living costs.  

Unless the former is increasing more than the latter, I think whether conventional economists think we are in a "recession" or not is irrelevant to most people--as I think much conventional economic, and economic development, thinking and planning is and has been.  In fact, rather than continuing our habitual knee-jerk efforts to "grow" the economy and attract/create ever more "good" jobs, I think we need to re-invent such efforts to focus on new and better ways to reduce the cost of living over time, which I think will better prepare us for possible future scenarios other than more growth.