More Power To Drivers-For-Hire, O'Brien Says Drivers-for hire are being given a Lyft. You might even say they could soon be Uber-powerful. Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien says he’ll... Carolyn Adolph
Seattle Backs Off Hookah Lounge Crackdown Seattle’s hookah lounges got a little reprieve. The city had planned on closing down the smoking lounges on Monday, but now officials are backing off.... Ruby de Luna
Mud Bay Pet Store Workers Claim Stake In Company Ross Reynolds asks the co-CEOs of Mud Bay pet stores why they decided to turn a chunk of the company over to their employees. Last week at the company’s... Ross Reynolds
Former Employee: 'I Had A Baby And Cancer When I Worked At Amazon' After a New York Times' expose on exacting worker conditions at Amazon, CEO Jeff Bezos said he was shocked -- and then asked for direct feedback from... KUOW Staff
How Ivar Haglund Sold Slacker Style And 'Acres Of Clams' Think of a simpler Seattle in 1938: No Jeff Bezos, no Bill Gates, no dawn to dusk traffic jams. Instead there was Ivar Haglund, restaurateur and showman... David Hyde
Blacks Were More Likely To Lose Jobs During Recession, UW Study Finds Blacks – especially black women – working in the public sector were disproportionately laid off during the recession, according to a new study by the... Amy Radil
ACLU Ads Offer To Help Amazon Employees Sue Friday's Seattle Times newspaper contains a full-page ad from the American Civil Liberties Union. It’s an open letter to Amazon employees, offering to... Amy Radil
A Week Of Hypercompetition: From Amazon To Little League Why should the rest of us care whether Amazon employees love or hate their jobs? How can we make wildfires less destructive? What are we teaching our... Bill Radke
SeaTac Airport Workers React To Court Decision On $15 Minimum Wage About 4,700 workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are about to get a big raise. The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that the city of SeaTac... Joshua McNichols
The People Behind The Rise Of Online Microlending Jessica Jackley was a liberal arts major who stumbled her way into the Stanford MBA program. Philosophy and business came together for her in 2005 when... John O'Brien
