AltWeeklies Wire
Fertile Common Groundnew
Farmworkers and growers are uniting against a common foe: price pressure.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
07-05-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: United Farm Workers
Six-Feet Underhandednew
In Washington's fast changing "death care" industry, one thing is certain: Funeral scams and foul ups haven't been laid to rest.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
05-31-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
A Waterfront Brawlnew
E-mails suggest Port of Seattle CEO Mic Dinsmore tried to influence last year's Port Commission election, and some members think he should go.
Seattle Weekly |
George Howland Jr. |
05-24-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Microsoft's $1.6 Million Mannew
Although they have since dropped him in an effort to reverse a PR meltdown, the software giant employed righteous conservative Ralph Reed as a consultant for years.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
05-10-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Rip-Off Continuesnew
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has come out with a proposal for settling Enron's claims in Washington -- and it stinks.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
04-26-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Seattle Oil Tycoonnew
An update of Paul Allen's world: pipelines, insurance, and maybe some bankruptcy.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
04-19-2006 |
Business & Labor
Microsoft's Big Betnew
Although the latest version of Microsoft Windows is more than six months from shipping, company brass already have christened Vista as the biggest and best Windows release since Windows 95.
Seattle Weekly |
Mary Jo Foley |
03-15-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
A Union Shop on Every Blocknew
As baristas seek to organize, the feds cite Starbucks for interfering.
Seattle Weekly |
Philip Dawdy |
12-07-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Microsoft Deletes Ralph Reednew
Microsoft is ending its relationship with choirboy-lobbyist Ralph Reed, but the company's ties to others in the seemingly infinite loop of the Republican lobbying scandal are deep -- in D.C. and Seattle.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
05-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Million-Dollar Payday for Top REI Execnew
Retiring CEO Dennis Madsen earned $1.3 million in 2004 at Seattle's homegrown outdoor-equipment co-op.
Seattle Weekly |
Chuck Taylor |
03-23-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Who Wants to Be a Socially Responsible Millionaire?new
Jeff Reifman left Microsoft with $5 million. He's trying to invest that wealth virtuously. It's not easy.
Seattle Weekly |
Jeff Reifman |
01-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Costco: Company for the Peoplenew
If Wal-Mart represents red-state America's ruthless race to the bottom line, then Costco offers a blue-state alternative. The company is proving Wall Street wrong by adhering to a radical idea: Treating customers and employees right is good business.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
12-15-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: hottopic
Lockheed Accuses Boeing of Racketeeringnew
In a Florida filing, Lockheed is seeking to discover expanded evidence of "overt acts" stemming principally from continuing U.S. investigations into the Boeing aerial-refueling-tanker lease deal. Lockheed maintains that incidents related to this and other cases show a 14-year "pattern" of illegal activity by Boeing.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
11-26-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Microsoft Has Sacrificed Innovation to Protect Profitsnew
A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products and missed opportunities could doom Seattle’s most successful company.
Seattle Weekly |
Jeff Reifman |
08-07-2004 |
Business & Labor
