I was an intern at the Department of Defense and was attending happy hour at the office in July when a drunken executive – a man much older than me – started chasing me. He followed me along with other interns as we moved from group to group. Eventually he cornered me asking about my … Read more
Zoe Lofgren Democrat – California’s 19th District Has served in the House of Representatives for a fourteenth term since 1995 Other committees: Property management; Justice; Science, space and technology Lofgren has the unique quality of having ties to all four of the impeachment proceedings of the Modern Age President, and during the 1974 impeachment of … Read more
• And around the world • Millions of Americans may not have had an adequate response to the Covid-19 vaccine
Downtown Seattle and the headquarters of Amazon during the COVID-19 pandemic. (GeekWire photo / Kurt Schlosser) The plywood is falling off, restaurants that have survived add hours, and vehicle traffic in Seattle is growing from the ghost towns a year ago. With downtown, Belltown, and South Lake Union ready for tens of thousands of employees … Read more
An Amazon Fulfillment Center in Spokane, Washington (GeekWire Photo) The union votes are now in the hands of the National Labor Relations Board, and the two factions have met their single ballot challenges in the year-long struggle to organize nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. Over the next two days, a decision will … Read more
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks at re: Invent 2018. (GeekWire Photo) Andy Jassy will have big shoes to fill when he succeeds Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, later this year. The Chicken Wing’s 53-year-old tech manager will also face a number of challenges – from labor problems to a sprawling empire of … Read more
Disclosure of Short Positions. Large hedge funds are required to disclose their “long” positions if they exceed the threshold of owning 5 percent or more of a company’s stock. Such disclosure is not required for short positions. At all. Shouldn’t there be? If we as a society believe that transparency is important in order to … Read more