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[...]
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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
June 20th, 2017 - 9:45 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Real Estate
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June 20th, 2017 - 1:22 am § in Misc.
Who Writes Laws in Seattle?
June 5, 2017 What would you think if you discovered automobile executives had written a bill on auto safety and handed it to your senator to sponsor? And what if you learned those same executives had penned pro-industry letters to the editor for your senator to send to the local newspaper under his[...]
June 4th, 2017 - 9:17 am § in The Ave Scene
Afraid to Speak In Seattle
LGBTQIA+ SPEAKER CANCELS TOWN HALL APPEARANCE DUE TO DEATH THREATS Author Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor is an an assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton, and a longtime activist. She’s also a friend of local Seattle teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian, who was slated to introduce[...]
June 1st, 2017 - 12:39 am § in The Ave Scene
!! 21, Yes 21, Candidates For Mayor of Seattle
So. with the August 1 primary date approaching, and after the smear attack on Mayor Murry, Seattle now has 21 wannabe mayors! These range from the former biker party mayor Mike McGinn to perpetual hero of the anti soviet movement, Alex Tsimerman, Screen shot of the mayoral candidate filings. I[...]
May 30th, 2017 - 12:51 am § in The Ave Scene
Jeff Bezos Is Not Just The World’s Richest Man, as Owner of the Washington Post He is not Just Breaking News, He is Reinventing Journalism
Bezos May Have Saved The Free Press As the Internet devastated traditional media, we were left with the ugly world of Fox News with its alternative reality and the confusing hope of the now failed model of a news aggressors, led by the Huffington Post. TV News was taken over by the entertainment[...]
May 24th, 2017 - 11:47 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Seattle
Seattle court strikes blow to Seattle’s effort to unionize Uber drivers. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik has issue a temporary injunction against the city of Seattle’s ordinance permitting Uber drivers to unionize. The lawsuits came from the US Chamber of Commerce and the Freedom [...]
May 23rd, 2017 - 9:05 pm § in The Ave Scene
Will Kaepernick Come to Seattle?
Colin Kaepernick to work out for Seahawks Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick will work out with the Seattle Seahawks on Wednesday, the NFL Network reports[...]
May 21st, 2017 - 12:26 am § in The Ave Scene
Why do MY tax dollars support Sawant’s Socialist Alternative Party?
A friend in Seattle tells me that this was sent on Seattle money, using City Council Staff, by Kshama Sawant. Whatever the value of her opinions, I do not understand how this is relevant to Sawant’s job as the Council member from my neighborhood in Seattle. Sawant is obviously using city mon[...]
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[...]