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Archive for the ‘The Ave Scene’ Category
April 25th, 2017 - 12:00 pm § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Athletic Hypocrisy
Texas football player’s story prompts probe of Garfield High School recruitment Seattle is investigating possible recruitment violations tied to the Garfield High School football team in light of allegations made by a youth from Texas who arrived in Seattle without any family here and played as a [...]
April 25th, 2017 - 12:09 am § in The Ave Scene
Racial Hypocrisy
The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black by Ijeoma Oluo I‘m sitting across from Rachel Dolezal, and she looks… white. Not a little white, not racially ambiguous. Dolezal looks really, really white. She looks like a white woman[...]
April 23rd, 2017 - 8:28 am § in Donald Trump, Environment, Hypocrisy, Politics, Science, The Ave Scene, UW
Was The March for Science a Bad Idea? I
On Saturday, UW faculty took very different paths in the March for Science. Some of us stood aside, concerned that the March might politicize science, others celebrated science by joining with the the crowd marching in the Seattle rain. Cliff Mass was among those who stayed away. Cliff is [...]
April 21st, 2017 - 11:45 am § in The Ave Scene
Anniverary of Seattle’s Rebirth
Century 21 World’s Fair opens in Seattle on April 21, 1962.[...]
Suzanne DelBene to Speak for Science Tomorrow at the March for Science
SEATTLE – Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) will speak about the importance of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) at the March for Science on Earth Day. As the chaos and Alt facts of the Trump era threatens us all, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene will speak out for science and for the [...]
April 17th, 2017 - 11:10 pm § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Boeing to Cut More High Level Jobs in Seattle
By Alwyn Scott | Reuters NEW YORK Boeing Co (BA.N) warned employees on Monday it planned another round of involuntary layoffs that would affect hundreds of engineers at its commercial airplanes unit, according to a source and a memo seen by Reuters. The additional layoffs are due to start June 23,[...]
April 16th, 2017 - 12:28 am § in The Ave Scene
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Call Me Reverend
from David Preston at the Blog Quixotic A Leader of Seattle’s Homeless Industry The Bill Kirlin-Hackett Story Mr. Mild The first impression one gets of the Reverend Bill Kirlin-Hackett is of someone we’d expect to find singing kum-ba-ya around the campfire or handing out coffee and hugs at[...]
Racist Wings Fly Over South Carolina
Michael Brown and his family, Black Americans, were asked to leave a Wild Wing Cafe in Charleston, South Carolina after a white customer complained that she felt unsafe near the black family. The restaurant offered him a free meal By Daily Mail Reporter While not new, this story still rings tru[...]
Trump’s Spoils System