Category: Seattle
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...
How Our Success is Ruining Seattle
The economic boom affecting the Emerald City is ruining Seattle as we know it. Here's how we can stop it.
Amazon’s Impact on Seattle’s Ballard Neighborhood
Update: See what happened to those two cute houses sold as lots and what they look like now! You may have read about Amazon’s overwhelming impacts on Seattle but let’s take a walk through formerly sleepy Ballard to get a sense...
Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze After Forty
Why 20 thousand additional men in a city might make finding meaningful romance more difficult — for everyone.
What Are the Odds of Finding Your Ideal Partner (in Seattle)?
For its Valentines Day episode in 2013, This American Life’s David Kestenbaum shared an anecdote of physicists trying to calculate the odds of finding a girlfriend in Boston. They began with the population of Boston, adjusted for the female contingent...
Funded By Seattle Real Estate Developers, Forbes Writer Attacks Amazon Critic
Upton Sinclair said, “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it*.” This is evident in Roger Valdez’s column in Forbes today (How Jobs and Awkward White Men Are Destroying a...