A conversation with Seattle
So long, summer. It’s Monday morning, drizzly, and fall is most definitely here. This weekend, Seattleites were tugging at their … Continue reading The Weekend Debrief: Fremont Oktoberfest, Mosquito Repellent Developments, and the Awesome Shows your Friends Went To.
That funding was part of the larger Gates Foundation fight against malaria and dengue fever; they’ve disbursed more than $2 billion so far, for research and development on “more effective treatments, diagnostics, mosquito-control measures, and a safe and effective malaria vaccine.” Continue reading A New Patch to Keep Mosquitoes from Sniffing You Out
As if to prove their point for them, Daniel Greenstein, the Foundation’s director of postsecondary success, decided to reply with what is, in this context, a withering put-down: “The alternative — graduating fewer students at a higher cost over a longer period of time — is not serving the needs of most students,” he told the Seattle Times by email. Continue reading Gates Foundation to Chronicle of Higher Education: Our Critics are Idiots
The Seattle office space market has absorbed 797,000 square feet so far in 2011, reports Colliers International in their third quarter survey. Colliers tracks Class A, B and C office buildings that are 10,000 square feet and larger (medical buildings excepted). Seattle’s current vacancy rate is 16.53 percent, down from 18.13 percent a year ago. (The Eastside is “stagnant” at 14 percent–there are “16 properties with contiguous vacant spaces above 50,000 SF available.”) Continue reading Seattle’s Office Space Retrenches While Zombies Watch
Local entrepreneur Bill Gates was in Paris today, tagging graffiti art by Artof Popof and Dag to publicize the launch of Living Proof, a site that advocates for the benefits of foreign aid.
“I’d love it if everyone in France could go to Africa and see the great things going on there,” Gates told AFP. Continue reading Bill Gates ‘Tags’ Graffiti in Quest for Aid Dollars