UPDATE: how Paul Allen affects UW Presidential search. I have a proposal: why doesn’t Paul Allen just buy the UW and make it the NW version of Harvard? I do not know what tax rate Billionaire Paul Allen pays, but the typical rate in his bracket is 15%! On the Tom Hartmann show, see Rep[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Paul Allen’
March 1st, 2011 - 9:26 am § in Environment
WA Just Won an Island!
Ed. Imagine you received an envelope telling you that you had just won an island? Not just any island .. not just a rock off of some far off frozen shore, but a large island within a short distance to Seattle, Olympia, and Tacoma. This island could be a wonderful heritage for your children and [&hel[...]
February 20th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Seattle’s Unique Opportunity: The Waterfront
This is the city founded centuries ago by people from the Salish Sea. The longboats of our Samish and Duwamish predecessors were part of a network of native navigation reaching from Tacoma to Alaska. The white men came and replaced Chief Seattle’s home but the waterfront remained the cor[...]