Parents are paying big bucks for prime seats at public-school graduations (abstracted from the Seattle Times) Seattle schools and PTAs are auctioning off prime seats for graduation ceremonies. The best seats in the house are close to the stage, The unobstructed views are perfect for yellin[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle’
June 16th, 2018 - 12:34 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Auctioning off Honors at Public School Graduation
June 7th, 2018 - 8:22 am § in The Ave Scene
50 Years Since Robert’s Assassination
Ed Murray, Mayor of Seattle This is the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s death on June 6, 1968. While as a 6th grader I was caught up in my parents’ admiration of him, as an adult it was his capacity to grow as a politician that I had hoped to emulate.[...]
November 16th, 2017 - 1:39 am § in The Ave Scene
Overheard at Starbucks:
Amazon Newbie: “It’s been raining a long time. When does it stop?” Native: “Next July.”[...]
September 17th, 2017 - 1:56 am § in The Ave Scene
Hong Kong offers the future of housing in Seattle
IS THIS SEATTLE”S FUTURE?[...]
July 21st, 2017 - 8:30 am § in The Ave Scene
WHY I OPPOSE PROP 1
If Prop. 1 were a character in a novel, the genre would be picaresque, like “Don Quixote” — lurching from one misadventure to another toward its fate. .. Seattle Times Proposition 1 is on our ballot. It would add a .1% sales tax and use that money to “support the arts.” That so[...]
July 7th, 2017 - 12:12 am § in The Ave Scene
ONE MILLION DOLLARS: Median Price On Queen Anne
One million dollars……. The median price now for a Queen Anne home in Seattle. And the rocketing cost of housing doesn’t stop there. Our condo association offered a 4th floor unit with average views but a great downtown location at $450 thousand – it went to the highest bidder[...]
July 2nd, 2017 - 11:48 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle’s Red/Black City Council Election
Has The Center Left? Seattle City Council seat #8, up this year and open (Tim Burgess is retiring from this seat), will provide a good anatomy of Seattle political alignments. You can sense how much the socialist wing of Seattle politics has grown since the election of Kshama Sawant. Opposing that w[...]
June 27th, 2017 - 7:27 am § in The Ave Scene
UW Report of Minimum Wage Law in Seattle Loss of Jobs Disputed by U Cal Researcher
Last week, two reports on Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance reached opposite conclusions. Researchers at the University of Washington found that Seattle’s minimum wage is costing jobs. A second report, requested by the the Mayor’s Office, claimed that the UW study was false. The Universit[...]
June 20th, 2017 - 9:45 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Real Estate
8737 1st Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117 – 2 beds/1 bath (NWMLS) For Sale: 2 bed, 1 bath, 1210 sq. ft. house located at 8737 1st Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117 on sale now for $448,000. MLS# 1106355. Huge potential for builders and investors! Located only a few minut… REDFIN.COM[...]
POLITICO RATES AMERICA’S MAYORS: Mayor Murry Did Not Make List
David Brewster An intriguing survey of America’s 11 most interesting mayors, and how they are positioning their cities as the cities of the future. Seattle doesn’t make the list. I suspect one reason is the way mayors in this city spend most of their time tending powerful constituent gro[...]