ORCA vs. Sand Tar Joel Connely, Seattle PI: No two places in North America look less alike than the tar sands of Alberta, a vast, Mordor-like oil field, and the blue waters and islands of the Salish Sea and Strait of Juan de Fuca, shared by British Columbia and Washington. The “oil patch”[...]
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June 4th, 2017 - 9:17 am § in The Ave Scene
Afraid to Speak In Seattle
LGBTQIA+ SPEAKER CANCELS TOWN HALL APPEARANCE DUE TO DEATH THREATS Author Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor is an an assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton, and a longtime activist. She’s also a friend of local Seattle teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian, who was slated to introduce[...]
June 1st, 2017 - 12:39 am § in The Ave Scene
!! 21, Yes 21, Candidates For Mayor of Seattle
So. with the August 1 primary date approaching, and after the smear attack on Mayor Murry, Seattle now has 21 wannabe mayors! These range from the former biker party mayor Mike McGinn to perpetual hero of the anti soviet movement, Alex Tsimerman, Screen shot of the mayoral candidate filings. I[...]
May 30th, 2017 - 12:14 pm § in Environment, The Ave Scene
Meanwhile, back in Puget Sound, Tears For a Baby Orca
David Neiwert This is one of the most heartbreaking photos I’ve ever seen: Little J-54, struggling to survive and too weak to swim on his own, being held up by his big sister, J-46, on the right, and his cousin, J-47, on the left, after the death of J-28, his mother. Captain Mark Malleson of [[...]
May 24th, 2017 - 11:47 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Seattle
Seattle court strikes blow to Seattle’s effort to unionize Uber drivers. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik has issue a temporary injunction against the city of Seattle’s ordinance permitting Uber drivers to unionize. The lawsuits came from the US Chamber of Commerce and the Freedom [...]
May 23rd, 2017 - 9:05 pm § in The Ave Scene
Will Kaepernick Come to Seattle?
Colin Kaepernick to work out for Seahawks Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick will work out with the Seattle Seahawks on Wednesday, the NFL Network reports[...]
May 23rd, 2017 - 8:23 am § in The Ave Scene
Microsoft and China Collaborate to Create Big Brother OS?
Microsoft has built a version of Windows 10 tailored for China’s government and state-owned corporations, baking into the operating system greater control for administrators , Chinese state control over how the OS handles privacy and a pledge to not send any data outside of the country. The Chines[...]
May 22nd, 2017 - 8:21 am § in The Ave Scene
Washington loses fight, might pay up to $2B to save salmon
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year affirmed a lower court’s 2013 ruling ordering the state to fix or replace hundreds of culverts — large pipes that allow streams to pass beneath roads but block migrating salmon. Idaho and Montana joined Washington state in asking the[...]
Jeff Bezos Is Not Just The World’s Richest Man, as Owner of the Washington Post He is not Just Breaking News, He is Reinventing Journalism
Bezos May Have Saved The Free Press As the Internet devastated traditional media, we were left with the ugly world of Fox News with its alternative reality and the confusing hope of the now failed model of a news aggressors, led by the Huffington Post. TV News was taken over by the entertainment[...]