Starbucks to lay off 350 employees at Seattle headquarters The news was emailed to staff just half an hour before Amazon announced its new major locations. Isolde Raftery
What That 'Service Fee' Tacked Onto Your Ticket Is Actually For Handling fees, service fees, venue fees — sometimes they're clear, and sometimes they're hidden. But they always increase a ticket's cost. NPR Staff
What should happen to the old, majestic Weyerhaeuser campus in Federal Way? Weyerhaeuser abandoned all that when the company moved its headquarters from Federal Way to Seattle two years ago. And now, everyone seems to have a different vision for what this land should become. Joshua McNichols
WaPo: Amazon near deal to bring HQ2 to Northern Virginia Will Amazon build its second headquarters in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, just south of Washington D.C.? Washington Post reporter Jonathan O'Connell tells about that prospect. Angela King
Seattle: Scooters are dangerous. Tacoma: Wheeeee! Seattle is hesitant to add scooters for safety reasons. We sent out a reporter to try one. Casey Martin
Paul Allen never created Data, from Star Trek. But he wanted to Allen's long term goal was to create an A.I. that could pick up a textbook, read through a chapter, and then successfully answer the quiz questions at the end of the chapter. Joshua McNichols
Starbucks now serving baristas subsidized childcare Starbucks baristas can now get backup child-care for as low as $5 a day. Paige Browning
