Category: Northwest
Seattle’s Coming ‘Amazocalypse’
Amazon's male programmers struggling to find bathrooms will soon be able to walk home to pee.
Seattle Traffic Has Grown With Amazon
After reading John Cook’s The worst cities for traffic jams: Where booming Seattle and San Francisco rank at GeekWire, I decided to chart my earlier estimates of Amazon’s employee headcount against INRIX’s Seattle traffic studies. The amount of time a Seattle...
Amazon’s Terrible on Diversity (The Seattle Times is Wrong)
While I greatly appreciate Nina Shapiro’s front page story on Amazon’s impacts on The Seattle Times, I disagree with her coverage of the company’s impact on Seattle diversity; in fact, her reporting contradicts two other statistical reports from The Times’ Gene...
It’s Time to Cut Our Spending at Amazon
The company's ignored the massive problems it's created in Seattle. It's time to stop shopping with them.
Evidence of Traffic and Affordable Housing Problems in Seattle
In How Our Success is Ruining Seattle, I mentioned traffic gridlock and affordable housing issues as lowering the quality of life in Seattle. Over the last 24 hours, I saw two examples of this. This morning, I received my third...
Amazon Misleads the Associated Press About Seattle’s Affordable Housing
[dropcap2]E[/dropcap2]arly in July, Amazon PR told the Associated Press (AP) that it had “given the city [of Seattle] tens of millions of dollars for affordable housing” for a story that appeared on more than 300 news sites including The New York...
Seattle References for How Our Success is Ruining the Emerald City
Seattle News, References and Statistics Here’s a reference of all the resources I used for How Our Success is Ruining Seattle which packs in a variety of data in its commentary. It was also featured in BoingBoing. I also want to...