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Posts Tagged ‘Seattle Scene’
May 25th, 2014 - 11:00 am § in The Ave Scene
Celebrate the Northwest and Support Someone With Cancer.
May 25th, 2014 - 8:53 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Taxpayers Should Subsidize Developers!
Seattle Flirts with a Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face Transportation Policy Excerpts from a guest op/ed at Publicola, By Jon Scholes Two equally misguided tax proposals were floated this week to raise additional funding to pay for public services in Seattle. First, in a Sunday column,[...]
May 23rd, 2014 - 10:33 am § in Schools & Colleges
Letter to UW Faculty
Dear Colleague Some of you may know about this gif. If not I hope your find it as funny as I do. I made it by surfing the web for all Husky branded stuff. I found over 200! Isn’t amazing to think that all of these are covered by someone’s claim of a copyright**? Here [&hellip[...]
May 20th, 2014 - 7:44 am § in America
This is NOT Antisemitism?
Rapper Macklemore says his costume worn during a May 16 show in Seattle was not meant to stereotype Jews. Us Magazine (http://usm.ag/1hYuNDP ) Actor Seth Rogen – who is Jewish – didn’t shy away from commenting on the questionable getup, tweeting, “@macklemore, first you trick people into th[...]
May 19th, 2014 - 12:34 am § in Schools & Colleges
A Model For Creating Leading Universities
Berkeley Blog: Seeking an alternative to the World Class University model John Douglass, senior research fellow, Center for Studies in Higher Education | 5/14/14 | 3 comments | Leave a comment The concept of the World Class University is cited across the world, but it represents a paradigm that is n[...]
May 16th, 2014 - 7:43 am § in Uncategorized
I’m making $21 an hour at McDonald’s. Why aren’t you?
A UNIONIZED McDonald’s worker speaks out: No, that isn’t a typo. It’s really my salary. You see, I work for McDonald’s in Denmark, where an agreement between our union and the company guarantees that workers older than 18 are paid at least $21 an hour. Employees younger than 18 make at l[...]
May 15th, 2014 - 4:01 am § in The Ave Scene
Death, slow death, of the Seattle Times
My wife and I cancelled our subscription to the Seattle Times a couple of years ago when we realized we were only buying it for the Wednesday food ads. What little reading was left outside of the QFC and Safeway pages was rehash of news we had already read online or in our subscriptions to [&helli[...]
May 8th, 2014 - 1:31 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
WAZZU ,,, being investigated for sex abuse!
WSU joins Harvard Law as Subject of Investigation for Sex Abuse The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released today a list of the higher education institutions under investigation for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harass[...]
May 8th, 2014 - 8:55 am § in The Ave Scene
The Taxi vs Uber War Goes WorldWide
London black taxis plan congestion chaos to block Uber Over at HorseAss, Goldy has been campaigning against Lyft, Sidecar, and uber because they are, he claims, unlawful. now, the issue is going international. London’s famous black-cab drivers are planning to cause gridlock in the city to[...]
May 6th, 2014 - 12:31 pm § in Misc.
Bill Gates Shares in Microsoft Dwindle to Nill
In 1986 Bill Gates owned 49 percent of Microsoft at its initial public offering. Today Bill has a fortune of about $77 billion even after his gifts of tens of billions ot the Gates Foundation. Unless Gates stops his regular program of selling stock, soon, however, none of Gates’ fortune[...]