Category: Washington State
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Microsoft Begins Returning Proceeds from Tax Dodging
Update: Welcome Slashdot readers! Please be sure to read about the San Francisco-ization of Seattle by Amazon and other technology leaders: How Our Success is Ruining Seattle Is Microsoft the New Robin Hood? Microsoft begins returning a fraction of its...
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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...
Seattle’s Hourly Wage for City Light’s Carrasco vs. New Minimum
Here’s how Seattle’s new staged $15 minimum wage compares to that of its two $170,000 deputy mayors and the proposed $365,000 salary for City Light head Jorge Carrasco. See also: Seattle Contracts for $47,500 to Improve Search Results for Top Administrator.
Seattle Contracts for $47,500 to Improve Search Results for Top Administrator
Excellent piece by The Seattle Times’ Jim Brunner today on Seattle’s contracting $47,500 to improve the Google search results for the city’s highest paid administrator, Jorge Corrasco. Corrasco, already paid $245,000 annually for leading Seattle City Light, is under consideration...