IN THE SHADOW OF THE FIGHT OVER KPLU A few months ago the UW decided to buy out KPLU, a popular radio station that competed with the UW’s named station, KUOW. A public outrage stopped the buyout and rescued KPLU. Next week the UW will send backhoes and bulldozers to tear down a historic b[...]
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June 7th, 2016 - 1:09 pm § in The Ave Scene
150th Anniversary of the death of Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle .. he is buried across the Sound. This statue of the Chief sits in Downtown Seattle, under the monorail. Four roads intersect around the tiny plot of concrete and grass beneath the statue. Cars and trucks spew fumes and only a daring pedestrian would try to cross the street to look c[...]
April 4th, 2016 - 10:25 am § in The Ave Scene
A Bernie Supporter goes shrill
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’[...]
January 15th, 2016 - 7:43 am § in Misc.
Michael Hood: It smells like rotten eggs and putrefying fish.
Michael Hood It floats alive into shore in rippling brown waves, little grape-like clusters and frilly ‘leaves,’ fresh and almost becoming with the scent of the sea. But then it piles itself up a long vulnerable shorelines, sometimes up to 10 feet high, then rots and and reeks. It smel[...]
November 22nd, 2015 - 9:22 pm § in Uncategorized
Trump’s libel of Arab-Americans could get someone killed
“Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.” That’s Donald Trump defending remarks he made Saturday claiming he saw “thousan[...]
October 15th, 2015 - 1:46 am § in The Ave Scene
With Kingdome Paid Off, what to do with $20 Million?
Remember the Kingdome? Well we have been paying it off until last January … or our visitors have. The hotel and motel taxes in King County went to pay the debt not just for building the big wart but for the repairs when the ceiling tiles fell down. Now the debt is paid, what should we [[...]
October 5th, 2015 - 10:17 am § in America, The Ave Scene
District 5: Tribal Politics in The Seattle City Council Race
I do not know much about Juarez, but her claim that tribal money is OK for a local city council district race rings false. Candidate Juarez sounds like Sawant. The Brahmin lady form India claims to be a person of color and justifies taking 100s of thousands of dollars, much of it non r[...]
July 20th, 2015 - 7:14 am § in Misc.
Geov Parrish on the Seattle Election
GEOV.ORG Primary Election 2015: It Takes a Village Full of Candidates Two years ago, against the near-unified opposition of Seattle’s political establishment, an overwhelming two-thirds of Seattle voters approved a new, district-based composition for Seattle City Council: seven districts and two a[...]
April 8th, 2015 - 5:26 pm § in Misc.
DISSING Seattle’s Art Taste
Over on FACEBOOK, I got into an argument with Jen Graves, a local art critic, about the work of Buster Simpson. I know that Mr. Simpson is successful in the “art world.” That does not change my opinion or answer my question. Rather it evokes references of “”The Empe[...]
SOUTH CAROLINA: The Last Confederate Funeral
It is amazing to me, never having lived in the South, how the Confederacy has become so honored that Jews like my sister can live there while a Black girl can be given an honor in the name of a civil war hero. I hope nothing of this sort ever happens in Germany! I have […][...]