Seattle’s (former?) Capitol Hill neighborhood

[Judas Maccabeus]

I don't think I've ever even met a communist other than the old guy with a beard who used to try to hand out copies of the "Daily Worker" in front of the university library back when I was in college in the 1980s.

You must not know many mainland Chinese. Most of the ones I have interacted with are Communist.

Less than 7% of the Chinese population are members of the Communist Party.

The only "mainland Chinese" that I have interacted with are the parents of my students who immigrated here. I seriously doubt any of them are communists. They are mostly small business owners who run local businesses like restaurants and dry cleaners.

If an academic is not a party member he is not going anywhere. That from 13 years of working with grad. Students and scholars. More than half of them were party members. However, it is likely during Hu Jintow’s rule, they may not really have been Communists. But they were party members

[Ken]

You must not know many mainland Chinese. Most of the ones I have interacted with are Communist.

Less than 7% of the Chinese population are members of the Communist Party.

The only "mainland Chinese" that I have interacted with are the parents of my students who immigrated here. I seriously doubt any of them are communists. They are mostly small business owners who run local businesses like restaurants and dry cleaners.

If an academic is not a party member he is not going anywhere. That from 13 years of working with grad. Students and scholars. More than half of them were party members. However, it is likely during Hu Jintow’s rule, they may not really have been Communists. But they were party members

You are probably right. I've just never interacted with any Chinese at any academic level. Back when I was traveling in academic circles it was in fisheries management. And in that academic world, all the international scientists and scholars who attend conferences and such are Japanese, Russian, Norwegian, British, and Canadian. With the odd Icelander, Chilean, Mexican, and Spaniard tossed in. Not Chinese.

[temporal1]

“Kerry Hall hits the market as Cornish College of the Arts says goodbye to Capitol Hill”
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024 ... itol-hill/

.. The property and the 1921-built, three-story, 31,900-square-foot building sit just off Broadway in an area protected by a city landmark district but near where a new wave of development is starting to form. A few blocks east, a six-story “U-shaped” mixed-use project is moving forward on the Broadway’s block home to the popular Bait Shop bar. To the north, St. Mark’s is moving forward to redevelop a portion of its campus to create new affordable housing that will meld a new building with an adaptive reuse of the historic St. Nicholas building.

The nonprofit Cornish appears uninterested in exploring opportunities like Seattle’s proposed Connected Communities program hoped to ease affordable housing development by “community-based organizations,” instead putting the property up for sale for a developer or another organization to take the parcel and the old building into a new future.

“Nestled in the Harvard Belmont Landmark District, it exudes a timeless architectural appeal with its white façade and classical design elements,” the school says in the announcement. “Inside, it houses classrooms, studios, rehearsal spaces, and a large performance venue. It is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and is zoned LOWRISE3 (LR3).” ..

FYI
At the bottom of the article, there are 3 more articles, dated 2014, 2021, 2023.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Less than 7% of the Chinese population are members of the Communist Party.

The only "mainland Chinese" that I have interacted with are the parents of my students who immigrated here. I seriously doubt any of them are communists. They are mostly small business owners who run local businesses like restaurants and dry cleaners.

If an academic is not a party member he is not going anywhere. That from 13 years of working with grad. Students and scholars. More than half of them were party members. However, it is likely during Hu Jintow’s rule, they may not really have been Communists. But they were party members

You are probably right. I've just never interacted with any Chinese at any academic level. Back when I was traveling in academic circles it was in fisheries management. And in that academic world, all the international scientists and scholars who attend conferences and such are Japanese, Russian, Norwegian, British, and Canadian. With the odd Icelander, Chilean, Mexican, and Spaniard tossed in. Not Chinese.

Chinese do not manage fisheries, they eliminate them.

[Ken]

If an academic is not a party member he is not going anywhere. That from 13 years of working with grad. Students and scholars. More than half of them were party members. However, it is likely during Hu Jintow’s rule, they may not really have been Communists. But they were party members

You are probably right. I've just never interacted with any Chinese at any academic level. Back when I was traveling in academic circles it was in fisheries management. And in that academic world, all the international scientists and scholars who attend conferences and such are Japanese, Russian, Norwegian, British, and Canadian. With the odd Icelander, Chilean, Mexican, and Spaniard tossed in. Not Chinese.

Chinese do not manage fisheries, they eliminate them.

Yes, a lot of the outlaw rogue fishing vessels on the high seas are Chinese.

[temporal1]

September 2024

Pastor Terrorized, Arrested For 'Reading the Bible Aloud' Scores 'Complete Victory' / -12min

Description:
A Washington pastor has scored a major victory after being arrested at least twice for preaching the Gospel in public.
Pastor Matthew Meinecke's battle against Seattle officials recently came to a close, according to Nate Kellum, senior counsel at First Liberty Institute. The lawyer told CBN News how the situation began in June 24, 2022, how it was resolved — and why it matters.

"What had happened was the city of Seattle effectively made reading the Bible aloud a crime," he told CBN News.
“And it first occurred on June 24, 2022. I don't know if that date sticks out to you, but that was the date that the U.S. Supreme Court rendered the Dobbs decision. That was a decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade." Meinecke was reportedly preaching during a huge protest against the decision in downtown Seattle, and Kellum said the preacher felt it would "be a perfect opportunity to share the Gospel."

"So, he took his Bible and he goes out there to read the Bible," he said. "He has very earnest pro-life beliefs, but that was not his purpose. He really just wanted to share the Gospel. Meinecke started reading from the Book of John and "it was not received well." "Some protesters started to crowd in around him, started saying some inflammatory, derogatory things, [and] made him feel uncomfortable," Kellum said. "So ... he moved off a few feet away to a new spot, but then, at that spot, some protester grabbed his Bible and started ripping the pages out of it."

And that's not all.
Kellum said the situation turned physical after Meinecke grabbed another Bible and resumed reading.
That's when he alleges "Antifa members got involved." "They started to pick up Pastor Meinecke," Kellum said, noting they carried him around a block before dropping him on the cement. Despite the pain and danger, Meinecke found another spot and started breaching again. That's when he was again confronted and reportedly knocked down. Kellum said the police intervened at that point, but rather than helping Monike, they said "he was the problem."

"Pastor Meinecke knew ...
he had a First Amendment right to share his views," the attorney said. "And so he wasn't just willing to walk away, [and] tried to reason with the police officers, but they arrested him, and they held him for several hours in a detaining cell until after the abortion rally had ended, really thwarting his opportunity to share the Gospel."

Found in Comments:
@gary8306 WROTE:
11 days ago
We had someone arrested in the UK recently for SILENT praying.
She eventually won a lawsuit against the police.

@Man_Cave WROTE:
13 days ago
I find it ironic that the Police handled the matter exactly the way the Romans did.

Seattle Times (paywall?)
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... le-police/

Seattle pastor arrested for reading the Bible receives monetary damages in court victory
https://www.christianpost.com/news/seat ... attle.html

Meinecke v. City of Seattle, No. 23-35481 (9th Cir. 2024)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/ap ... 04-18.html

P.24 / Related topic:
viewtopic.php?t=5042&start=230

[temporal1]

2025

TimCast IRL / Seattle COLLAPSING, Tax Rev DROPPED $47M As Companies FLEE Crime And Democrat Policy / 14min

Found in Comments:

@UKnowtheThing WROTE:
If you're a registered Democrat you shouldn't be allowed to leave.

This happens too often.
Bad policies are chosen, passed, allowed, those responsible leave without penalty.
Those unable to leave are stuck with unwanted results.

Prevention of bad decisions is ‘way better than attempts to mitigate damage.

“A stitch in time, saves 9.”

[Ken]

Seattle is not collapsing and this whole issue is being deliberately distorted by the conservative media. I'm not exactly sure why.

First of all, Seattle doesn't depend on a payroll tax. The bulk of Seattle's tax revenues which are in the $8 billion range come from property taxes, sales, taxes, and B&O taxes. A few years ago as part of a misguided affordable housing initiative they passed a new payroll tax that is only imposed on large employers like Boeing and Amazon. The funds were to be dedicated to building affordable housing. Which on the face was stupid because the main reason why housing is so expensive in Seattle is restrictive zoning and all the liberal NIMBY types who don't want any neighborhoods to change or see increased density.

When the city experienced a budget shortfall last year they decided to raid this fund and divert some of the money to the general budget. The $47 million shortfall mentioned in the video isn't actually a drop in revenue. Revenues have been going up along with employment. It is just a shortfall from the even bigger increase that the city economists has predicted. So revenues are up, just not as much as they expected. Here is what the Seattle Times said about it: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... dget-woes/

The tax, which was passed in 2020 as a means to fund affordable housing construction, is bringing in more dollars overall than was forecast when first enacted. Lawmakers believed it would bring in somewhere around $250 million per year. In fact, it collected $315 million in 2023 and $360 million in 2024.

The problem for the city, however, is that its forecasters projected the tax would bring in more than $400 million last year, a number the mayor and members of the Seattle City Council used while writing this year’s budget and to help bridge a $260 million deficit.

So payroll tax revenues were actually up by $45 million last year rising from $315 million to $360 million. They just fell short of the $407 million that the city economists had projected. That is out of a total municipal budget of about $8.3 billion.

What they should really do is scrap the whole affordable housing charade and just reform their zoning laws and that would solve both their housing and budget problems. But that is politically too difficult I guess.

[JohnH]

Perhaps the people in Seattle who aren't yet in a crime infested neighborhood would like to keep it that way, and don't want high rises going up next door to them. Can't say I blame them.

[Ken]

Perhaps the people in Seattle who aren't yet in a crime infested neighborhood would like to keep it that way, and don't want high rises going up next door to them. Can't say I blame them.

More right wing propaganda. Both violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically in Seattle since the pandemic (just like most other cities).

And newsflash. Buildings don't cause crime. If they did Tokyo and Singapore would be crime ridden. They are not.

What buildings actually do is provide homes for families and increase the tax base for a city that is apparently struggling with both housing and budget.