Guest blog post by Lois Kulas: Where the hell is Matt?

Why did we drive over an hour, across state lines, to dance badly with a guy named Matt and a bunch of people we didn’t know? Let me try to explain. Five years ago, I sat in a restaurant overlooking Times Square when on one of the big outdoor screens I noticed a video of …

Supreme Court tells McDonald’s to stop whining

Seattle, Wash., raised its minimum wage to $15, and some businesses squawked all the way to the Supreme Court, which on Monday, said no. Or, as it says here, the Supreme Court told McDonald’s to “shut it’s Mac-hole.”  

“Is any one else freaking out right now?”

Because Dan Price, a Seattle-based CEO who cut his pay and raised his workers’ salaries to a minimum of $70,000, said he was freaking out when he made the announcement. Price said he made the moves because he sees a “moral imperative” to bridge the income gap. What can we learn from this? Plenty, says …

Seattle’s approach to economic inequality

My Sunday Times contained this, a story about how the city of Seattle has started pricing transit fares based on riders’ income. The move is part of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray‘s approach to inequality in general. From his first state-of-the-city address, given in February: “We stand at a crossroads. We can follow the example of …