Give to panhandlers or don’t? Some towns try cracking down
Arlington, Marysville and Spokane are all trying to eliminate panhandling, urging residents to send people to services instead. It raises the question: What’s the best,...
Initiative to ban safe-injection sites in King County knocked down by judge
Initiative 27, scheduled for February’s special election, was struck down because it infringed on the work of public-health authorities, a judge ruled.
Nomad Technologies gives college students gigs as human billboards | Tech Spotlight
Bellevue startup Nomad Technologies, started by a recent WSU grad, hires students, commuters and eventgoers as “nomads” to carry iPads on their backpacks displaying advertising.
Buy Nothing Project: free clothes, toys, food — even a wedding WATCH
Created by two Bainbridge Island women who were inspired by a Himalayan village society, Buy Nothing links a half-million people with their neighbors and eschews...
Tomorrow Ideas aims to get millennials thinking about death | Tech Spotlight
Seattle startup Tomorrow Ideas has launched an app that lets users draw up a will, set up a living trust and buy life insurance through...
12 Tully’s Coffee locations at Boeing to close, with each side blaming the other
In two weeks, Tully’s Coffee locations at Boeing plants will close. Tully’s Coffee says it was difficult and unprofitable working with Boeing after the company’s...
New Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom has a hard act to follow
Expedia’s last CEO quadrupled the company’s gross values in travel bookings, doubled its pretax earnings, and was successful enough that Uber took him to lead...
Redmond’s VerAvanti is medtech startup minus the VC funding
Tech Spotlight: Gerald McMorrow and Russell Garrison started VerAvanti with patents from the University of Washington for a camera that goes inside blood vessels.
New Seasons announces Central District store, to mixed local response
This would be the upscale Portland-based grocery-store chain’s third location in the Seattle area. It’s moving into a formerly majority black neighborhood split over gentrification,...