Tents line a street in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) The Compassion Seattle electoral initiative, which aimed to revise the city’s policy towards its homeless population, will not be eligible for election in the city’s November elections, a judge on the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled Friday. Earlier this week, supporters of … Read more
Tents will be pitched on a grassy lot along Dexter Avenue in Seattle in January 2021. The Space Needle and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation can be seen in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) A state judge removed the “Compassion Seattle” measure from the November vote on Friday and said the proposal … Read more
A California judge ruled that Proposition 22, the measure that allows companies like Uber and Lyft to continue to classify app-based drivers as independent contractors in the state, is unenforceable and unconstitutional. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch found that Prop 22 “illegally restricts a future legislature’s power … Read more
At the end of the Epic vs. Apple study, Apple CEO Tim Cook took a position to provide the study’s most anticipated testimony. After a much-quoted statement that “I’m not a gamer,” Cook testified earlier that day about Apple’s business in China and its privacy policy. However, some of the toughest questions came from U.S. … Read more
In this image from the video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as his defense attorney Eric Nelson makes final arguments in the Hennepin County courthouse in Minneapolis on April 19. Court TV / AP The jury in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has begun the second day of deliberations, … Read more