Since she was elected, Kshama Sawant has ignored District 3. Her interests are national .. as part of a movement that she sees herself leading., I doubt many outside of that circle take her seriously. In practice, she has been obstructive. In particular, she sees herself as a self-chosen leade[...]
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September 19th, 2019 - 3:10 am § in The Ave Scene
Is Tilman Fertitta going to Buy out Tom Douglas?
Restaurants Unlimitted, a more or less high priced Seattle Restaurant chain (Palomino, Palisade and more than two dozen other restaurants in the Pacific Northwest).went toes up! It looks like it is going to get bought out by Tilman Fertitta Tilman is CEO and owner of Landry’s, a humongous ch[...]
September 18th, 2019 - 1:43 am § in The Ave Scene
The Man Who Could Have Been Apple, Jean-Louis Gassée, Writes About Jeff Bezos
Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write Jean-Louis Gassée writes an amazing essay about Jeff Bezos in the website Medium as part of his series of posts called Mondaynotes. Gassée played a major role in the history of Apple and what might have been a very different history of the entire tech world. In 1985, as [...]
July 6th, 2019 - 8:12 am § in The Ave Scene
SEATTLE’S REVENGE: Steve Balmer Makes His Move
So the second CEO of Microsoft retired and bought himself a basketball team that was not very good and was down there in LA. Then Balmer made a deal, shaking up the NBA immediately moving his team, the Clippers , from the league’s most long-sufferingand hard-luck franchises to a competitive lev[...]
Will Trump’s Trade Wars Kill Apple?
1 Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios (Axios, June 18, 2019, abstracted) A growing chorus of skeptics betting that Apple is headed the way of Blackberry and Nokia. In the midst of the Trump Trade Wars, Apple’s stock price has relied on more than $100 billion in stock repurchases last yea[...]
June 10th, 2019 - 7:23 am § in The Ave Scene
Will OHSO rich, so liberal, Seattle save the ORCA?
Lynda V. Mapes in the Seattle Times reports that new findings show that environmental efforts in Seattle itself are essential to the survival of our struggling orca whales: A new look at just where orcas are eating big kings reveals the importance of rivers in north and south Puget Sound to the orca[...]
June 7th, 2019 - 12:10 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
A Charter Lesson for The Seattle Schools: Huge Success by Lebron James?
The Promise School (IPS), a public elementary school aimed at at-risk children.in Akron, Ohio, opened in 2018. Funds from the Akron Public Schools are augmented by a contribution from Lebron James. Both Lebron and other programs in Akron collaborate to guarantee IPS student tuition to att[...]
June 5th, 2019 - 12:53 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
ARE TEACHERS BADLY PAID? Is a starting salary of $80,000 too low?
A recent report by the NEA notes that only 5 percent of the students in a recent survey of college-bound students were interested in pursuing a career in education, a decrease of 16 percent between 2010 and 2014. The NEA blames this, and the high rate of turnover in starting teachers, on what they[...]
Urban Planning in Dumbass Seattle
Who In Their Right Mind Wants a 9 Hole Golf Course in Dowth Town Seattle? The Seattle golf lobby, this is who! Seattle’s golfers are upset that the city council is reviewing our 5 golf courses. I like golf courses! I ysed to walk our dog on a public golf course in Long Beach! (I […][...]