Seattle lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation to ban caste discrimination in a move that could impact tech workers and companies. The first-in-the-nation law aims to address a social practice that… Read More
When Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant introduced legislation this week to ban caste discrimination in Seattle, her supporters included tech workers who say the system of bias and oppression has… Read More
Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who took on Amazon and others over the years in an effort to tax big businesses, will not seek re-election to the Seattle City Council. Sawant, who… Read More
Every week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go behind-the-scenes of some of the biggest and most interesting stories we’ve been covering from our Seattle newsroom, on the front lines of… Read More
Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood — a.k.a. Amazonia — is typically sleepy on the weekends without thousands of Amazon employees buzzing around. But that wasn’t the case Saturday; hundreds of affordable… Read More
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[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every episode, check back weekday afternoons for more, and sign up… Read More
Amazon is getting used to fielding jabs from politicians. President Donald Trump spent most of last week berating the company. But this time, the Seattle tech giant is under attack… Read More
“Ho, ho, hey, hey! Amazon, you have to pay!” “Let’s shake Jeff Bezos down! We need housing in this town!” “We are ready to fight! Housing is a human right!” … Read More
Amazon will be required to allow 24-hour public access and put up signs making it clear that free speech activities are permitted in a future courtyard that’s planned as part of the… Read More
The Seattle City Council is debating behind closed doors this week over whether to move forward with a pilot program that would bring municipal broadband to part of the city’s North Beacon Hill neighborhood.… Read More
Seattle councilmember Kshama Sawant wants a municipal broadband network in the Emerald City, and she’s calling on the city’s residents to join forces to make it happen. Sawant, a former software… Read More