Mayor Murry was a UW employee before being elected. His position in community outreach became a campaign issue because some accused him of serving as a UW lobbyist while also being a State Senator. Unfortunately, while Murry s now our Mayor, it seems like we have little else to do with our[...]
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February 23rd, 2015 - 11:39 pm § in Misc.
Is a KING 5 story about teacher pensions misleading?
“In Washington, public employees who commit a crime don’t lose their taxpayer guaranteed retirements, and teachers can earn the right to a lifetime retirement after working for as little as five years.” That’s the lede of a KING 5 story posted on its website tonight. It con[...]
February 13th, 2015 - 12:51 pm § in The Ave Scene
THE Ave Challenge: Who is Seattle Center Named For?
It is now four years since there was a proposal to honor our origins as a city by building a longhouse at Seattle Center, nothing has happened! Meanwhile, the statue of the Chief sits in Downtown Seattle, under the monorail. Four roads intersect around the micro plot of land beneath the statu[...]
January 18th, 2015 - 1:21 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Scene: For 1 cent, WASTATE lost out on a great attraction.
USS Ranger featured in ‘Top Gun’ set to be dismantled for single penny Imagine this on the Seattle Waterfront as an attraction? Aircraft carrier, USS Ranger, which featured in the movie ‘ Top Gun ‘, will be dismantled for single penny in Brownsville, Texas. Officials were[...]
October 18th, 2014 - 3:54 pm § in Environment, The Ave Scene
The ORCA The ORCA
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer It was quite the #orca show along the Seattle waterfront on Friday afternoon[...]
October 7th, 2014 - 12:08 am § in Misc.
Yale Joins Brandeis in Shaming Free Speech
Muhammad Syed, the co-founder and Executive Director of Ex-Muslims of North America “As a former Muslim with friends and loved ones who are Muslim, I am disappointed with the behavior of the Muslim Students Association. There’s a pattern of silencing dissent that runs through the Muslim wor[...]
Buchenwald 56. Living Danish Heroes at Rosh Hashanah … Teshuvah
As we approach Yom Kippur 5775 (2014 CE), today marks nearly the fiftieth essay in my Buchenwald series. This essay is posted during one of the ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, days each Jew is supposed to spend thinking about how to be a better person …a process called &[...]
September 14th, 2014 - 9:17 am § in Misc.
What a waste!
After his plans for a new Seattle Waterfront were widely derided as not being innovating and not reflecting anything of Seattle, the city’s contract with James Corner for 8 million has already spent $7.5 million dollars. Cornet is an international landscape architect, well known for [...]
September 11th, 2014 - 2:46 am § in The Ave Scene
Burke Museum to pitch Legislature for a new building
The Seattle Times reports that the UW wants the legislature to fund a new builfing to replace the 52 year old Burke Museum. The current building is too small toexhibit the collection and the lack of air-conditioned or climate-control puts its extensive, important collections at risk. Its directo[...]
Reuven Carlyle: Massive Expansion of the UW School of Medicine
Reuven Carlyle Thinks Big: Let the University of Washington Buy The Amgen Campus First it was Washington State University proposing to create a new medical school in Spokane for the absurdly low annual cost of 24 million dollars. Now, over at his blog, State Representative Reuven Carlyle h[...]