This month marks the 25th anniversary of Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater musicians’ strike. The labor movement has always found strength in numbers. This strike stands as one Seattle history’s most dramatic examples of union solidarity and strength in numbers. In February 1997, a tiny[...]
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The world’s biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons is right under Seattle’s nose
At least, that’s what this article says: “Bangor, Washington, now houses the largest single nuclear weapons site in the world … holding roughly 25% of the United States’ 9,962 nuclear warheads.” Bangor, of course, is the home base of America’s ballistic-missile submar[...]
January 17th, 2022 - 5:29 pm § in Health
Guide to who’s not vaccinated in Seattle
“Seattle is one of the most vaccinated major metro areas in the nation,” the Seattle Times says here. Even so, as of early December, there were about 216,000 unvaccinated people over age 18 in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, and that probably hasn’t changed much because most [...]
December 27th, 2021 - 12:10 am § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Seattle snow!
The Pike Place Market, December 26, 2021. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Seattle activist behind attacks on “critical race theory”
The tsunami of rightwing attacks against “critical race theory” didn’t come from nowhere, or happen by spontaneous combustion. It’s the brainchild of a very smart conservative activist named Christopher Rufo, who has Seattle connections. Rufo, 37, a California native, graduat[...]
Will rampant violence end Seattle’s experiment with homeless compassion?
THE CITY’S DOWNTOWN AREA IS SO DANGEROUS THE COUNTY HAS HIRED ESCORTS FOR ITS WORKERS. Read story here Despite that, Seattle’s city council still wants to cut $10 million from the police budget. Read that story here Meanwhile: Voters nationwide are skeptical of efforts to cut police fu[...]
October 26th, 2021 - 6:57 pm § in Misc.
Seattle radio host un-coached over school mascot tweets
Dori Monson is a long-time Seattle conservative radio talk-show host. His side gig is coaching girls high school basketball. In 2016, he coached a Seattle-area team to a state championship (photo, left). It’s not surprising that school district was on the verge of offering him a coaching job f[...]
Seattle Times drives WSU president to drink
Despite the governor’s mandate, WSU football coach Nick Rolovich isn’t vaccinated. WSU President Kirk Schulz (photo below) admitted it during a faculty meeting, a Spokane TV station reported on Friday, September 24, 2021, noting that Gov. Inslee has mandated that “all state workers[...]
June 28th, 2021 - 10:47 pm § in Environment
Death Valley days in Seattle
The temperature hit 108 degrees in Seattle, an all-time record, on Monday, June 28, 2021. On this same day, it was 120 degrees at Furnace Creek, Death Valley, far short of the 135-degree record set there in 1913. (Guess that disproves global warming, huh.) Anyway, the worst is over, and it will cool[...]
June 28th, 2021 - 10:27 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Seattle experiencing power outages during heat wave
About 13,000 PSE customers in Bellevue have been without power since Saturday, according to KOMO News (story here), and roughly 11,000 Seattle City Light customers are without power as of Monday evening, according to SCL’s system map (here). In addition, WSDOT reported some I-5 lane closures b[...]