@4: Looks like most of those addresses are south of the ship canal - there's probably discrimination all over the city. Seattle is changing so fast that your racist stereotypes don't apply anymore. You haven't been to Northgate lately have you? Hardly "mcwhitey".
Even if the Oil Rig created 417 jobs, who cares? They say that like this city is Detroit with high unemployment levels and a lack of job prospects. Amazon will probably hire that many people this month...
The Port is always wrong about projected activity.
That's why nobody except Pete Von Reichbaur and the Seattle Times Editorial Board believes what they ever say.
Even if - IF - this "half the jobs supporters claim" argument is correct (and I doubt it is, because it undoubtedly relies upon ignoring indirect positions....so what? That's still jobs. It's still a factor of infinity more jobs created than the people protesting its placement (remember, anything greater than 0 is infinitely larger than 0)
That seems ripe for a local version of The Onion.
That's why nobody except Pete Von Reichbaur and the Seattle Times Editorial Board believes what they ever say.