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Mayor Ed Murray Proposes $13.25 an Hour Minimum Wage. Seven Years from Now.
I haven’t seen the details but it sure sounds like the minimum wage proposal Mayor Ed Murray is sending to the Seattle City Council is much along the lines of the crappy one leaked late last week: $15...
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Mayor Murray’s Minimum Wage Proposal in a Nutshell: $15 in 2017 Dollars, by 2025
Okay, so I’ve finally had a chance to wrap my mind around Mayor Ed Murray’s minimum wage proposal, and found it to be both a little bit better and a tiny bit worse than it first appeared. The good news...
View ArticleThe Number 15, Eventually
If I’ve learned anything from the $15 minimum wage debate it’s that $15 should be thought of not just as how much $15 can buy today, but simply as a number between $14 and $16. So Ed Murray’s plan will...
View ArticleWhat Makes Labor Costs Different? Control.
It’s tough running a small business.Your rent goes up, but what can you do? So you muddle on. Fuel costs go up, but you muddle on. The cost of supplies goes up—food, inventory, whatever—and you muddle...
View ArticleFriday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
Ann Telnaes: Cardinal Dolan, loyal anti-gay marriage American.Baptism by Palin:Jon reacts to Sarah Palin’s waterboarding comments.David Pakman: Sarah Palin on baptizing terrorists with...
View ArticleA Brief DigitalOcean/ServerPilot Review
Thanks to a link yesterday from our good friend Atrios, HA experienced its first sustained peak traffic surge since switching servers about a month ago. Longtime regulars know that HA’s server had a...
View ArticleHA Bible Study: Leviticus 24:16
Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land,...
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Bird’s Eye View Contest
Last week’s contest was unsolved as of Friday night. It was the athletic complex at Northwestern University, where the football team is voting to unionize.This week’s is a random location somewhere on...
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View ArticleOpen Thread, Crowpen Thread
There is a crow’s nest in the tree across from my apartment. They must have just had a chick, because they’re aggressively dive-bombing people. Over the weekend, I saw that avian asshole attack 2...
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Drinking Liberally — Seattle
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally was founded in early 2005, and has been meeting weekly ever since. Please join us tonight for a drink, some political conversation and, if you wish, some...
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I walked by a building the on the way to Drinking Liberally, and I noticed that the name of it was written in cursive. People aren’t being taught cursive in a lot of schools. It’s a decision I...
View ArticleOpen Thread 6/9
(I promise I’ll get back to politics at some point, but here’s more inane nonsense)I was walking through the park and a man walking the other way started talking to me. Now I’m wearing headphones...
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Three congressional special elections to watch this year.Mental Floss: 39 facts about poets.#ComeyDay:Comey Testifies: The full hearing.Stephen: Comey attack ads inspire Stephen to create his ownSeth...
View ArticleHA Bible Study: Ezekiel 23:8
Ezekiel 23:8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.Discuss.
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How late does drunk singing on the bus become OK? If you want to say never, that’s probably correct. But I was on a late night bus over the weekend, and a drunk couple were singing their hearts out to...
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Drinking Liberally — Seattle
Please join us this evening for some chat (*ahem*) Sessions over a drink at this weeks episode of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Stop by and offer your two percent (on income above $250,000...
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Another Rainier cherry post.Washington state cherries are in! So good. So still not good for me how many I’ve eaten.Also: I was walking up some stairs and there was a cherry tree with dozens of...
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