Author Archives: Jim deMaine

Thanks to Rick B. Representative Nicole Macri will be at Skyline on Tuesday, June 11 at 7:30 to talk about the accomplishments of the 2024 legislative session. You might want to arrange your dinner reservations on June 11 in order … Continue reading →

Book Carts & Buskers June – September  Mon – Fri: 12-2pm  Located in Seneca Plaza Book Carts Seattle is the most literary city in the nation! Get book club ready with new and gently used books at the historic Book … Continue reading →

The NYT reported a few days ago that the “Museum Workers Walk Out, Describing Exhibit as Aligned With Zionism.” In a May 19 letter, the protesting staff said the “Confronting Hate Together” exhibition damaged community trust and aligned the museum with … Continue reading →

Thanks to Bob P.

Thanks to Marilyn W. By Taylor Blatchford Seattle Times engagement reporter Loneliness isn’t just a feeling. It’s a public health concern, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Wednesday in Seattle.  Murthy declared loneliness and isolation a national epidemic in May 2023, issuing an 81-page … Continue reading →

From the New York Times 4 minutes ago! Donald J. Trump, the former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a case stemming from a payment that silenced a porn … Continue reading →

Thanks to Mike C.

From AgeWise King County Ed note: This project honor’s Richard Ferry’s late wife, Maude. Please pass the information on to those with creative ideas about improving the care of those afflicted with dementia and those caring for them. Do you … Continue reading →

According to the Seattle times: The Seattle Public Library’s online catalog, e-books, Wi-Fi and public computers have all been taken offline Tuesday, as the agency investigates what it described as a ransomware event. Thanks to Mary M. – here’s the … Continue reading →

Students from Columbia’s School of Professional Studies attend their graduation ceremony on May 10, 2024, in New York City. The college’s main commencement ceremony was canceled amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images) The … Continue reading →

Thanks to Pam P. QUEENS, NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In what has become a Memorial Day tradition for him, on Monday Donald J. Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist.   Trump made his annual pilgrimage … Continue reading →

by Robert Reich in Substack Friends, Not since Theodore Roosevelt ran against William Howard Taft in 1912 have voters been able to weigh the records of two men who have done the job of president. The mystery is why Americans … Continue reading →

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, the day Americans have honored since 1868, when we mourn those military personnel who have died in the service of the country—that is, for the rest of us.  For me, one of those people is Beau … Continue reading →

Spring Fling at Skyline

Ed Note: For my personal take, click here. by Sunita Puri in the New Yorker Shortly after his sixty-seventh birthday, Ernesto Chavez retired from his job at a Los Angeles food warehouse. Sara, his wife of forty-five years, told me … Continue reading →

The billionaire Rob Hale gave the 1,200 graduates of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth a gift, and asked them to give, too. By Jenna Russell in the NYT Until the final minutes of their commencement ceremony last Thursday, the 1,200 graduates … Continue reading →

By Richard Buck – Special to The Seattle Times The latest financial report on Social Security portrays a dire future of supposedly inevitable benefit cuts of 21%, starting in 2033, as the system continues to pay out more each year than … Continue reading →

From Buzznet – thanks to Bob P. Over two million tourists visit Alaska every year, and many go hiking. But some of these hikes are dangerous. A deaf college student went on a hike alone and fell 700 feet down … Continue reading →

Thanks to Mike C. Rep. Byron Donalds’s medical education consists of a bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from Florida State University. But the Florida Republican played a doctor on TV over the weekend, telling Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that, after … Continue reading →

Thanks to Diana T. – from the The Dementia Action Collaborative “We are excited to invite you to a webinar that will make an impact: Partnering for Progress: Washington State’s Action Plan for Dementia. This webinar, offered on two separate … Continue reading →

Thanks to Pam P. Who made the world?Who made the swan, and the black bear?Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean —the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,who … Continue reading →

From crosscut.com The King County Council greenlit a proposal that will boost the minimum wage in unincorporated King County to $20.29 an hour, one of the highest in the country. Councilmembers Girmay Zahilay, Rod Dembowski, Teresa Mosqueda and Jorge L. … Continue reading →

Thanks to Pam P. Alex Wong/Getty Images ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA (The Borowitz Report)—The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took “full responsibility” for the piles of men’s clothing that suddenly appeared on the couple’s front lawn Monday morning. Neighbors awoke … Continue reading →