The New York Times explains several issues with legal betting leading to consumer exploitation, but they are not unique to the betting industry: they are legal shortcomings, or even shortcomings with American capitalism.
Posts published in November 2022
The Philippines is divided in many ways: its islands, culture, politics, and more. Just like water and oil, there are aspects of the country that don’t seem to merge well. For example, Islam and Catholicism. …
Other programs offered by the Mission include career training skills, a hygiene kit program, a drive-by feeding program, and the resident volunteer program.
66 million years ago, it was a humid spring day. A blinding light and a bang launched Earth into an extreme heat that flipped into a nuclear winter. A loss of 75% of all life…
In an anonymous letter from a Seattle Colleges tenured faculty member, included in the opening wage proposal by the American Federation of Teachers Seattle Local 1789 (AFT) to the Seattle Colleges District (SCD) in March,…
It is a rainy late afternoon in Seattle. You decide to stop by Pike Place Market for a cup of coffee. Stepping foot into the market, you feel something shift inside of you. It is like you’re being watched, but there aren’t many people around you at all. Through the stairway, you think you hear an echo of voices that belong to nobody. Suddenly, you catch a fleeting glimpse of something moving in the corner of your eye. You realize you are not alone, but are in the presence of something - or rather, someone - unseen.
Last year, we all heard the pots and pans around Capitol Hill in protest against the threat of Seattle Central’s administration closing down the Seattle Culinary Academy (SCA). Students and the community spoke out; they…
Brazil’s most recent presidential election has been making headlines all over the world for the past months. Different from the United States, Brazil’s election process does not involve an electoral college, nor is it optional.…
From its roots in Yosemite Valley in the 1920s, rock climbing today has taken to new heights, and not only because of how high rock climbers have climbed, literally, but also because of the amount of people who are rock climbing professionally and recreationally.
Just like some of you reading this, coyotes came to the Pacific Northwest and other U.S. territories for good food and a good time. To understand why, we need to go back a century.