Seattle, like other cities, is plagued with unwanted and unsightly graffiti. But in Seattle, prosecutors are going after the taggers. On Thursday, December 19, 2024, the county prosecutor charged 17 individuals with felony property destruction (read story and watch video here). Where they cut locks [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle’
October 26th, 2024 - 10:57 pm § in Politics
Would you vote for Seattle’s $1.55B transportation levy? (video)
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September 19th, 2024 - 11:32 am § in Schools & Colleges
Seattle’s tone-deaf school board
Seattle Public Schools, faced with a budget crisis, are weighing closing schools including the district’s only K-8 deaf program. Supposedly the public has an opportunity to respond to such proposals. But at a school board meeting on September 18, 2024, that was heavily attended by deaf familie[...]
June 26th, 2024 - 9:18 am § in Law and Courts
Seattle police owe BLM protesters $680,000 for chalk graffiti arrests
During the George Floyd protests, Black Lives Matters protesters in Seattle wrote anti-police graffiti with chalk, which washes off. The unhappy cops retaliated by jailing the four protesters overnight in January 2021, despite a directive against holding nonviolent offenders in jail because of the C[...]
June 1st, 2024 - 1:21 am § in Health
Is a herpes cure coming?
An experimental gene therapy developed at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center “eliminated 90% of facial infection and 97% of genital infection in lab mice who were infected with herpes simplex 1,” U.S. News reported on May 15, 2024 (read story here to find out how it works). Wa[...]
May 21st, 2024 - 5:08 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Seattle murals
Seattle is a city of murals. This one is in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. For more photos of Seattle murals, go here and here. Most famous of all is this one on a North Seattle house visible from the I-5 freeway. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 14th, 2024 - 11:24 pm § in Misc.
Seattle police entry pay hits six figures
The Seattle City Council approved a contract with the Seattle police union on May 14, 2024, that bumps starting pay from $83,000 to $103,000, with a raise to $110,000 after six months, the Seattle Times reported (story here). Existing officers will get retroactive raises for 2021-23 as a lump sum pa[...]
February 20th, 2022 - 9:36 pm § in Misc.
Seattle’s “Beauty and the Beast” musicians’ strike
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[...]
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 10th, 2021 - 6:21 pm § in Politics
Effort to recall Kshama Sawant fails
Kshama Sawant is the Socialist who can’t be made to go away. First elected in 2013, re-elected in 2015 and 2019, then surviving a recall in 2021 despite her detractors spending $1 million on their campaign to unseat her, it’s obvious voters in her district like her. Sawant seems radical [...]