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Seattle mayor admits breaking Starbucks boycott after urging residents to shun coffee giant
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, who last year urged residents to boycott Starbucks, acknowledged that she recently purchased a latte from the company but declined to say whether she still believes others should shun the coffee giant."I had the pleasure of visiting the Pike Place Market Starbucks a little while ago, and I ordered, I think it was a blueberry muffin latte that was like a staff creation," Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said during an interview published Wednesday with FOX 13 Seattle...
Seattle: A travel guide to the 2026 World Cup host city
Known as the Emerald City, Seattle will host World Cup games for the first time - including the USA's second group D fixture. Few cities in North America can lay claim to better summer weather than Seattle, neatly nestled in the Pacific Northwest with sunny skies and little humidity after Memorial Day. But the Emerald City, which will host the World Cup for the first time in its history, is a destination city for more reasons beyond its temperate climate.
Seattle World Cup barge gives soccer's global language a waterfront home
Seattle World Cup barge gives soccer's global language a waterfront home EVERETT, Washington, June 8 : Every World Cup is memorable, but Seattle's two pro soccer clubs - the Sounders and the Reign - hope they have created an unforgettable waterfront venue for fans to watch games and for kids to play: a pierside barge with a mini soccer pitch, a huge video screen and amenities. The barge commemorates a campaign by the RAVE Foundation, the clubs' charitable arm, to build 52 mini soccer pitches...
Seattle seniors beg city for help as ‘absolute anarchy’ erupts outside LGBTQ housing complex
Frustrated Seattle residents say their once-vibrant neighborhood has become a nightly nightmare of roaring engines, fears of gunfire and massive street takeovers, warning that the chaos has reached a breaking point as city leaders struggle to contain the growing problem. "It was a wonderful community," Rick Grossman — a resident of Pride Place apartments, an LGBTQ+ housing community for seniors located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle situated in the Pike/Pine Corridor — told KOMO...
Seattle mayor shrugs off millionaire-tax concerns as 44% of business leaders consider leaving
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said concerns about wealthy residents and businesses leaving Washington over rising taxes are "overblown" during an interview on Wednesday. "So today, do you still feel the narrative of the rich leaving is still overblown," FOX 13 Seattle co-anchor Hana Kim asked Wilson. "So, I still think that claims of a large exodus of rich people due to our statewide millionaire tax that the legislature passed this year are overblown," Wilson responded with a chuckle.
Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers
A group of Amazon engineers appeared at Seattle City Council hearings on Wednesday to throw their support behind efforts to regulate the development of giant AI data centers in the area, which are getting constructed while their employer is engaged in mass layoffs. "It's been reported that this year, Amazon is spending $200 billion dollars on capital, with most of it going to data centers and AI," Patrick Schloesser, a software engineer at Amazon Web Services, said at a hearing. "Microsoft...
As tax exodus grows, Seattle’s mayor boasts of donations from Starbucks, Microsoft
Seattle’s Democrat mayor Katie Wilson is not convinced with a recent survey that suggests that more than half of her state’s business leaders are planning to leave over the imposition of a new millionaire’s tax. In March this year, Washington state Democrats passed the millionaire’s tax, a 9.9% income tax for households that make over $1 million a year. Over half (55%) of Washington state business leaders are thinking of relocating their personal residence to another state, according to the...
Seattle mayor says sobriety won't be required at new homeless shelter
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said residents entering a new homeless shelter community in the city's Interbay neighborhood will not be required to be sober, a policy she defended as part of the city's effort to move people indoors and connect them with services."We're not demanding that people be, you know, abstinent when they enter this village, but there are going to be, you know, there's kind of repeated efforts to kind of help people along into treatment and so that treatment will always be...
Embedded: "We Keep Us Safe" from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times
Embedded: "We Keep Us Safe" from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times The eight-part series premieres on Thursday, June 11. Listen to Embedded wherever you get your podcasts, including NPR App, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify, and RSS. In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation.
Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, poised to pass moratorium on new datacenters
Measure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom growsSeattle’s city government is on the verge of passing a year-long ban on the construction of new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium as nationwide backlash grows. Four companies sought to build five large datacenters in areas serviced by Seattle’s public utility; if approved, they would have consumed approximately a third of the city’s current daily...