From The Seattle Times: Where does the new state education fund go? TEACHER SALARIES: The budget plan will shift the burden of covering teacher-salary costs to the state to comply with McCleary v. Washington. Lawmakers plan to do this by instituting a state property-tax hike in property-rich school [...]
Archive for July, 2017
July 10th, 2017 - 11:10 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The State Budget: Victory of Teachers’ Unions, The Rest of Education NOT SO MUCH
July 10th, 2017 - 5:05 am § in Hypocrisy
Bill Gates: Not in MY Backyard
Gates urges Europe to impede migrants from Africa. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called on Europe to stop demonstrating generosity towards asylum seekers to avoid an overwhelming migrant influx. He also advises European states to make Africans’ way to the continent much more difficult. “On th[...]
July 10th, 2017 - 12:36 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 7/10
Who said he would make his country great again? Post-Brexit campus in Dresden for King’s College London ‘in the process’ WikiLeaks nominates Assange to run Trump’s ‘US-Russia cyber security unit’ OOPS: TRUMP AND PUTIN TO SHARE US CYBER INTELLIGENCE DATA THEN TRUMP FOLDS Ha[...]
July 9th, 2017 - 10:38 am § in Donald Trump
Adam Schiff Opposes Giving Russia Keys to US Security
Top Dem rejects Russian cyber partnership: ‘We might as well mail our ballot boxes to Moscow’ (D-Calif.) blasted President Trump’s idea of working together with Russia on election hacking, saying if that were to happen, “we might as well mail our ballot boxes to… THEHILL.COM[...]
July 9th, 2017 - 10:22 am § in The Ave Scene
An Alternative to Seattle’s Income Tax?
Oregon Legislature Approves Plan to Start Charging Tolls on Two Interstate Highways Running Through Portland Why not a CITY TOLL on I5? The money could be used for mass transit![...]
July 9th, 2017 - 9:25 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Active Shooter In Bainbridge Island’s Eagle Harbor
Gunman on boat shot dead by officers after firing shots at shore along Bainbridge Island The Bainbridge Island Fire Department is telling people to avoid the shoreline area. This post will be updated. SEATTLETIMES.COM[...]