The Kindle Chronicles TKC 516 Seattleite Ricardo Frazer's Take on Amazon
Seattle Music and Arts Pioneer
Interview starts at 9:38 and ends at 44:45
“There it was, the [Seattle] head tax. ‘We’re going to do it, this is what we’re going to do. It’s going to address homelessness. We’ll collect the money--we don’t know how we’re going to spend it yet, but we’re going to hit these businesses with this tax.’ That’s just not the way to govern, in my opinion.”
News
Atul Gawande to head Amazon-Berkshire-JP Morgan health organization, as covered in The New York Times and The Washington Post
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Amazon Prime Day 2018 will begin July 16, according to a Techradar scoop.
TechRadar’s Prime Day hub
Supreme Court ruling allowing states to force online retailers to collect sales tax (Bloomberg and Recode)
Tech Tip
Interview with Ricardo Frazer
Sir Mix-a-Lot (Wikipedia)
Sir Mix-a-Lot web site
Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF)
“Amazon to Share New Building with Homeless Shelter in Seattle” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - May 10, 2017
“Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy, So He Asked Twitter” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - June 15, 2017
Next Week’s Guest
Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of Crime & Punctuation (Deadly edits).
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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