Dominic Holden Seattle is finally seizing derelict properties in the Roosevelt neighborhood, which is smart, but they’re proposing to use that land for a little park. THAT’S GODDAMN STUPID. Seattle needs less underused open space and more buildings stacked with people. Right now, there&#[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle Scene’
February 23rd, 2015 - 3:39 am § in The Ave Scene
Langston Hughes
Kingfish Café The Coaston sisters celebrate their family cookbook from New Orleans. Some call it soul or maybe N’awlins. Whatever, the recipes from poet Hughes are awesome and were that way for a couple of decades at the Kingfish Cafe. Looking forward to take-outs to com. RIP K[...]
February 15th, 2015 - 12:30 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Is Leschi a Saint in The Christian Heven?
Riddle me this .. is Leschi Eligible for Sainthood? Sainthood, according to Christians, is awarded by their God to those who lead valiant lives on the service of God’s will. The founding Governor of our state, Isaac Stephens, wrote in his diary that he knew that putting the indigenes of this l[...]
February 2nd, 2015 - 1:17 pm § in The Ave Scene
Seattle’s “I am not a billionaire.”
Nick Hanauer is the scion of a small family fortune made in the pillows industry, the Pacific Coast Feather Company. He invested some of the feather money in Amazon and that has paid off well. Now he is, by all accounts, either a billionaire or a modest fellow trying to become a billionaire. A Seat[...]
Why Seattle NEEDS Charter Schools: Parents NEED Choice
A story from the tiny Center School at Seattle Center illustrates how badly the District can hurt kids by top down, arrogant, centralized management. In 2o13 the Seattle School District decided to censor the teachings of a popular Center School teacher, Jon Greenberg. Mr. Greenberg’s proble[...]
January 14th, 2015 - 3:49 pm § in The Ave Scene
Did I do that? Add Money to The Political Fire
AND I am proud of it too![...]
January 9th, 2015 - 1:42 am § in The Ave Scene
The Seattle 15?
Seattle Met Chooses Seattle Up and Coming Leaders Seattle Met is one of those glossy urban magazines one finds in hotel rooms and on the coffee tables of affluent friends. The Met is also an interesting magazine because it has reached out to one the few remaining political reporters in Seattle,[...]
January 5th, 2015 - 1:56 am § in The Ave Scene
Will Capital Hill Get a Decent Market?
Bellingham company to buy 146 Safeway, Albertsons grocery stores BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state-based grocery chain Haggen Inc. plans to buy 146 Albertsons and Safeway stores in Washington, Oregon… Here on Capital Hill we used to have some OK markets before QFC was bought out [...]
January 3rd, 2015 - 11:46 pm § in Science, The Ave Scene
Are you feeling better now?
Its a year since WASTATE legalized weed. Hows it doin for ya?[...]
Open letter to Mr. Ted Howard Principal at Garfield High School.
Dear Ted:We are now at another impasse on allowing The March and Rally at Garfield High School. I am not going to go over what has happened in the past but it is important for you to understand where we are now and where African Americans in Martin Luther King County should be going in […][...]