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Where are Washington's K-12 dollars? Just ask Microsoft shareholders

A classroom in the Laotian school in Ban Na Muang.

Jeff Reifman

/ August 21, 2014

Politics

Court whacking of Seattle on phone books lets corporations run legally amok

The distribution of phone books has been targeted by environmentalists and others in much of the world: This Flickr photo from Australia has a caption mocking paper phone books.

Jeff Reifman

/ March 7, 2013

Politics

Seattle's stand against treating corporations as people

Seattle City Councilmembers take on the plastic bag industry.

Jeff Reifman

/ June 21, 2012

Politics

Mixing tech and belief: a Tugg toward activism

Watch "Incendiary," anti-death penalty documentary, on the big screen in downtown Seattle, thanks to Tugg, a new online service.

Skip Ferderber

/ April 25, 2012

Tech

Midweek Tech Scan: Broadband for Seattle?

Mayor Mike McGinn and ex-Mayor Charles Royer touting plans to bring fiber-optic Internet lines to Pioneer Square (May 2011).

Skip Ferderber

/ November 16, 2011

Culture

Weekend Tech Blog: Amazon to offer a sort of Netflix for book lovers?

Amazon's rumored efforts to start an "all you can eat" monthly subscription service for ebooks may be another weapon in the Seattle-based company's ongoing battles with traditional bookselling and...