Benjamin Romano

@SeattleTimes business reporter [email protected]

[Benjamin Romano @bromano]

@MikeLindblom and @AmondoZhou

[So. Seattle Emerald @SoSeaEmerald]

"Thanks in part to Sue Bird’s consistent greatness, even with less attention, less investment, and less hoopla than any male athletes in town, the Storm’s reputation has only continued to grow over the years." - writes @maggiejmertens https://t.co/g0F5kykKqx

[International Women's Media Foundation @IWMF]

A huge congratulations to #IWMFfellows @CorinneChin and @ErikaJSchultz, whose story "Disappearing Daughters" is a finalist for @ONA's Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling award! We're so honored to have helped bring this story to life! https://t.co/xzgeqTqS0o

[So. Seattle Emerald @SoSeaEmerald]

"This commitment to social justice is real for the WNBA. These women are used to having to fight for their own right to exist in a pro-athlete world that constantly tells them they aren’t as important as their male counterparts." / by @maggiejmertens https://t.co/8gpSoDtk3F

[Mark Riedl @mark_riedl]

1st day of online class for my 1st grader.

Teacher read a story online about a character named Echo the Owl. It kept triggering peoples’ Amazon Echos.

One of the Echos asked if anyone wanted to buy a bible.

[Benjamin Romano @bromano]

@davidlgutman @MikeLindblom I would also yell. In agreement with @MikeLindblom and the readers.

[Stewart Lyman: Working to Heal the World @lymanbiopharma]

Meet me at the Pledge!

[Benjamin Romano @bromano]

Seattle, what are we doing with Climate Pledge Arena? The CPA? The CliPled? The 'Mate? https://t.co/8qN9Mkg5C3

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

Nearly two-thirds of Americans want more aggressive federal action on climate change, and "clear majorities say they would prefer that climate initiatives be funded by increasing the taxes on wealthy households and on companies that burn fossil fuels." https://t.co/r4dqhidkwu

[Daniel Beekman @DBeekman]

NEW: Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda unveils her own proposal for taxing Seattle’s big businesses https://t.co/cv5TeCB01W

[Megan Burbank @meganireneb]

in this story: a surgeon who wants physicians to use clout for good, the only Black ballerina at Pacific Northwest Ballet, a tech worker who marched on a whim & wept, a mother whose view of policing was altered by flash bangs — all worth listening to

https://t.co/NcwzbelNo6

[Karen Weise @KYWeise]

Amazon reopened its photo studio in Williamsburg claiming a warehousing exemption. It's essential business? Fashion.

It closed the studio this month after we started asking the state if that was allowed. (It wasn't.) 1/

w/ @VVFriedman https://t.co/oBBRYbtsoh

[Curt Woodward @curtwoodward]

If you're not reading @JerryBrewer right now, fix that.

https://t.co/ZA8DBYXmRN
https://t.co/TOPcrttpWU

[Kate Crawford @katecrawford]

No way, Jose

[Matt Day @mattmday]

Covid-19 has swamped Amazon HR. Workers are struggling to get paid for quarantines or take leave to care for kids at home. Hours on hold, weeks waiting for answers.

The crisis is testing Amazon’s automated, just-in-time approach to caring for its people:
https://t.co/8ua9JByFFS

[Josh Eidelson @josheidelson]

Plaintiffs say Amazon
- Provides workers misinformation
- Sets “oppressive and dangerous” quotas & discipline
- Tells workers to avoid informing others if they get infected
- Has said its contact tracing consists only of reviewing surveillance footage
https://t.co/Q0oRhn9mDy