Your Iced Sugar Cookie Latte is going to have to wait. Thursday morning, Starbucks’ baristas went on strike and they won’t be back to business as usual until the company comes back to the table and finalizes a fair union contract with Starbucks Workers United (SWU). Until then, workers ask customers to find a new regular coffee spot — workers are “prepared for this to become the biggest and longest strike in Starbucks history.” According to SWU, workers have waited “nearly a

Election day has come and gone, but the race for Mayor of Seattle isn’t over yet. In a small ballot drop on Thursday, progressive challenger Katie Wilson started to close the gap between her and Mayor Bruce Harrell. With plenty of votes left to count, she could still win, but the difference between four more years of Harrell and a full progressive sweep of City Hall lies in just a handful of ballots. That’s why challenger Katie Wilson is still in campaign mode, now organizing

Young people: You have one more day until an election day that could land Seattle a new, lefty Mayor, a City Attorney who's not a Republican, and a more progressive City Council. And it looks like you’re holding onto those ballots until the last minute!  According to   King County Elections ballot return statistics , only 16.18% of registered voters have cast a ballot so far. Of course, that number will continue to climb until election day. For instance, almost 40% of ballots