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"The region gets to keep Amazon. Seattle doesn't." Amazon is pulling another 1,500 workers out of Seattle, as it abandons one of its original South Lake Union buildings it has leased since 2014. Why, you may ask? Charlie Harger answers that one directly: "...taxes, crime, and homelessness." And what... show more

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