David Preston Seattle’s $290 million “affordable housing” property tax levy passed yesterday, doubling the amount of the previous levy. Voters likely approved it because they felt it would reduce the number of homeless people visible on the streets. Unfortunately, it will likely [...]
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August 3rd, 2016 - 5:16 pm § in The Ave Scene
David Preston: What Seattle Housing Gets for $290 million
August 2nd, 2016 - 12:02 pm § in The Ave Scene
WASTATE GOP POLITICS
Clint Didier FACEBOOK WHAAAATTTTT?????? You won’t find CLINT DIDIER on the WSRP website this year. The Washington State Republican Party (WSRP) has a policy of excluding any Republican candidate from their website who is challenging an incumbent Republican seat, REGARDLESS OF THE VOTING RECORD or[...]
July 30th, 2016 - 10:00 am § in The Ave Scene
WTF? Who are these people?
Who are these people? Why do we elect a state auditor? Can’t we just hire one? [...]
July 30th, 2016 - 7:42 am § in The Ave Scene
VOTE NO ON 123
Seattle Initiative 123: An Unfunded, Irresponsible Mandate The idea is to model a Seattle park after New York’s privately funded Skyline Park. I-123 would replace the Viaduct with an elevated park. Unlike Skyline in Manhattan, there is no private donor underwriting this bad idea. Instead [...]
July 30th, 2016 - 7:25 am § in America, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Mass Shooting in Mukilteo
RUSSIAN STATE NEWS: Three individuals killed and one person injured when an individual entered a student house party in Seattle suburb; suspect arrested JULY 30, 2016 The shooting is reported to have taken place 25 miles north of Seattle during a high school or college party in the waterfron[...]
July 28th, 2016 - 10:09 am § in The Ave Scene
I Endorse Tina
I have been skeptical that we even need an elected Secretary of State. It is a regulatory position, why not appoint a non-partisan? Then I met Tina Podlodowski. She is a former Microsoft executive and member of the Seattle City Council. Tina is running against the only Republican elected to a stat[...]
July 26th, 2016 - 11:26 pm § in The Ave Scene
Bezos makes $5 million per second!
Jeff Bezos just made $6 billion in 20 minutes Not a bad afternoon’s work. The Amazon CEO saw his 82.9 million shares increase in value by $6 billion as the company’s shares jumped over 10% in after-hourstrading on earnings results that beat expectations.[...]
July 25th, 2016 - 5:19 am § in The Ave Scene
A setpiece debate: District 7 candidates give librul answers
One reason that politics has become money is the lack of any content in the media. This isn’t a debate. It is boring theater made up from preset questions followed by utterly programmed talking points …… grand issues everyone agrees on but not a nod to issues specific to this Con[...]
BERTHA POLITICS: Seattle Does Not Have a Political Machine
Dan Jacoby FACEBOOK Having moved from the Empire State to the Evergreen State almost five years ago, I quickly noticed something about the difference in political machines. That difference is most notable in my Facebook feeds this week from people in Philadelphia. Pretty much every delegate from N[...]