POSTED TO UW LISTSERV in response to my comments about Bernie and science. Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. Professor, UW American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Program on the Environment Stephen and colleagues: Why post dated misinformation from the Clinton campaign disguised as a neutral observer’[...]
Archive for the ‘The Ave Scene’ Category
April 4th, 2016 - 10:25 am § in The Ave Scene
A Bernie Supporter goes shrill
April 3rd, 2016 - 2:53 pm § in The Ave Scene
Seattle: The New Wall Street Runs Along Lake Washington
David Brewster The super-rich are definitely getting richer, but they are also changing in composition. And there is a lot of turnover at the top, with less wealth being inherited and more being self-made. The new rich now come more from technology, finance, and mass-retail chains; while energy and [...]
April 1st, 2016 - 10:31 am § in America, The Ave Scene
April 1 Jeff Bezos Buys Seattle’s Iconic Building as Global Headquarters for “The Post!”
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March 30th, 2016 - 10:08 am § in The Ave Scene
Job #1 of the Legislature is a political hippocratic oath to do no harm.
Reuven Carlyle FACEBOO The state’s 2016 supplemental budget fails to meet that low standard. Not only did we fearlessly punt this year on McCleary, we’ve unnecessarily placed our state’s school districts in danger of losing nearly half a billion by failing to simply allow them to[...]
March 27th, 2016 - 8:59 am § in The Ave Scene
David Preston: The Seattle Way.
Mr. Preston’s Neighborhood OK, so on Wednesday, on a bridge a couple miles from my house, a car full of punks rear-ended another guy’s car. The punks then took off, and when the other guy caught up with them at the other end of the bridge (he says he wanted to get their license) the [&he[...]
March 24th, 2016 - 1:25 am § in The Ave Scene
Oh OH! .. No Tipping Hurts the Waiters!
The End of Automatic Tipping Has Devastated Restaurant Paychecks Photo: AP Unless you work in a restaurant, you may not have noticed that many restaurants no longer include “automatic gratuities” on the checks of large groups. But if you do work in a restaurant, this little change may have lef[...]
March 21st, 2016 - 3:43 pm § in The Ave Scene
Housing in Seattle
Sobering statistic: There are only 906 homes of any price for sale in Seattle right now. In a city of almost 700,000 people.[...]
March 20th, 2016 - 10:16 am § in The Ave Scene
Light Rail Extension Opened
Well after years of construction and traffic congestion the University of Washington and Capitol Hill stations for the Sound Transit Light rail were opened yesterday as the next step to expansion throughout the city with The Roosevelt and Northgate stations predicted to open in the fall. Naturally t[...]
March 19th, 2016 - 11:24 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Save KPLU from the Evil UW
This is a must! The UW’s purchase of KPLU was a very sad move , an effort to undermine the diversity of listeners and need for local programming rather than the NPR feed. KPLU is very different, featuring Jazz and new programs built here along the sound.[...]
David Brewster Today is 40th anniversary of Seattle Weekly, a publication I helped to create and ran for 21 years. Pleasant sensation to be writing an article for The Weekly again. My essay joins others in looking at past four decades. I focus on the era of middle-class reform in the 1970s, when the[...]