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Archive for the ‘The Ave Scene’ Category
September 19th, 2017 - 12:27 pm § in The Ave Scene
What happens when you build, and build, and build.
September 17th, 2017 - 1:56 am § in The Ave Scene
Hong Kong offers the future of housing in Seattle
IS THIS SEATTLE”S FUTURE?[...]
September 9th, 2017 - 12:39 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Why White Parents Won’t Choose Black Schools By Abby Norman HUFF POST FERRAN TRAITE SOLER VIA GETTY IMAGES 18k Last year when I attempted to pick my daughter up from school, the volunteers in the carpool line tried to put a fourth grader in my car, not the four year old I was attempting to [&hel[...]
July 24th, 2017 - 10:05 am § in The Ave Scene
Local Trumpie Runs for Office in Mulkiteo
Despite AG rebuke, aerospace exec and big-time Trump donor Peter Zieve runs for office in Mukilteo The Attorney General’s Office said he fostered a discriminatory company culture. But Mukilteo aerospace entrepreneur Peter Zieve — who last year donated $1 million to Donald Trump — is now maki[...]
July 21st, 2017 - 8:30 am § in The Ave Scene
WHY I OPPOSE PROP 1
If Prop. 1 were a character in a novel, the genre would be picaresque, like “Don Quixote” — lurching from one misadventure to another toward its fate. .. Seattle Times Proposition 1 is on our ballot. It would add a .1% sales tax and use that money to “support the arts.” That so[...]
July 21st, 2017 - 12:59 am § in The Ave Scene
Identity Politics
My wife and I just paid our annual dues at a Jewish liberal group. New to the form was a request that include our “pronouns.” I think the choices were He, She, or They,. I guess It is out? OK, I see that people have all kinds of rights to choose an identity, but the […][...]
July 18th, 2017 - 12:27 am § in The Ave Scene
Is Seattle A Socialist Hellhole?
Seattle is a city “where freedom died along with every good singer from the ’90s.” In the opening of her Fox Business show “Kennedy,” Fox hostess Lisa Kennedy Montgomery called the Seattle City Council “commies” and “do-gooder authoritarians” and called Other salient t points by [...]
July 17th, 2017 - 4:33 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
While The Seattle Public Schools Drive High Achievers Out, Lakeside Comes to Seattle
» Lakeside School opening The Downtown School on Lower Queen Anne This while the SPS is threatening to cut back on Garfield’s gifted programs and has already cut back on the highly successful IPP program! race to the bottom This is a race to the bottom. [...]