‘World’s largest Warhol’ to bloom in Tacoma This photo rendition shows the Tacoma Dome roof with Andy Warhol’s giant flower design from 1981. Tacoma plans to try out the flower design for six months before committing to a permanent painting. The comparison of Tacoma with[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle Scene’
April 28th, 2014 - 1:19 pm § in The Ave Scene
SEATTLE’S NEW TEAM????
Magic Johnson Suggests Donald Sterling Should Sell Clippers After Alleged Racist Remarks Isn’t the opportunity obvious? Someone MUST be talking with Chris Hansen ”I was at the game in NYC with my wife, kids and close friends and needless to say it was a lifetime experience for me [...]
April 13th, 2014 - 3:29 pm § in The Ave Scene
Paul Allan’s Tech Advisor is Quickly Gone
Paul Allan Fires Loses Tech Advisor Paul Allen, after making his billions alongside Bill Gates and Steve Balmer, has not been very successful on his own in tech. After leaving Microsoft, a series of investments in tech have been less than impressive, suggesting that the man who owns much of S[...]
Sometimes The Right is Right!
Teacher’s Union Opposes Testing Because Washington School Districts Have Huge Amounts of Money Ron Hebron, Sound Politics Many people were shocked when Senator R. McAuliffe opposed the bill she sponsored. Seattle Times SB 5246 would have modified state teacher evaluation to be in line to get a[...]
April 7th, 2014 - 9:50 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Do UW Students Need Busses?
Over at the AAUP listserv, Robert Wood notes: I saw this interesting article in the Seattle Times about how the possible KC Metro transit cuts may negatively affect students, especially those with long commutes: I note also that The Seattle Times appears to be taking a neutral stand on Prop 1, whi[...]
April 4th, 2014 - 9:09 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Seattle’s Next Big Thing
What Comes After Legal Pot and The $15 Minimum wage? pre-K, parks district? High speed internet? Bike Racks? Public-Campaign Financing Watching the disaster that is ungovernable Olympia and Washington DC, to get things done attitude in Seattle is amazing! Led by Mike O’Brien , the S[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 11:54 am § in The Ave Scene
The Waterfront vs. Taxes Paid by Seattle’s Rich.
Over at HorsesASS, David Goldstein yells about the Seattle Times life in a world entirely free of context: The proposal now before the Seattle City Council is to double the existing property-tax levy devoted to parks, to $54 million a year, raising the annual cost for the owner of a $400,000 home [...]
April 1st, 2014 - 4:27 pm § in The Ave Scene
Goldy Makes an April 1st Appeal To The Seattle Times: &*(%$( Hire Me!
From HorsesAss: April Fools: Seattle Times Does Not Hire Goldy by Goldy, 04/01/2014, 11:22 AM I was thinking of doing an April Fools post in which I announced that I had been hired by the Seattle Times as a political blogger and columnist. But every time I sat down to write it, it never came [&helli[...]
April 1st, 2014 - 9:08 am § in Uncategorized
SAM Gets More Free Stuff to Put in its Sculpture Garden!
NO JOKE! New York apparently got tired of looking at listening to this thing. Some rich person bought this thing by a popular Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. Plensa created the forty-four feet tall monolithic sculpture, ” Echo” for Madison Square Park, NY. He claims it depicts a[...]