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
The construction cranes, the traffic, the housing prices, the general crush of a more crowded and growing city: there are plenty of indicators out there of just how much the… Read More
Seattleites who say Bay Area tech workers are invading their city have new data to back up that claim. In the last five years, the number of Silicon Valley workers… Read More
Free bananas and taco trucks may appear to be the primary food source for tech workers who take the time to actually step out from behind a computer screen. But is… Read More
It’s difficult to imagine that the digital economy is not creating the wealth of jobs it is promising with our front-row seat to Amazon’s influx of tech workers, but a… Read More
The debate over landlords giving breaks on rentals to Seattle tech workers is heating up. Last week, the Stranger and King 5 covered “preferred employee specials,” aka lower deposits, fees and even rents, as incentives… Read More
While many lament Seattle’s home-buying woes, which are being affected by the incoming droves of tech workers, it’s easy to overlook another part of the housing market — rentals. But as King… Read More