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It’s all Cleveland and Seattle news this week, except for the Minesweeper finisher.
Next week’s newsletter is iffy.
News
Hello Cleveland: The Podcast
I think we did a pretty good podcast about our fabulous trip to Cleveland (the Cleveland PD cameo made the cut). And I explain why I didn’t buy Space Twitter at the IPO.
Don’t Be Seattle: Taxing Jobs Results in Fewer Jobs
This is a brutal assessment. Awkward for Seattle’s mayor, who claims this tax as her life’s work. But something, something, “global and national headwinds”.
Don’t Be Cleveland: Gabe Newell Says Bye Bob
Got to be tough for Governor Bob Ferguson to get anything done given how much celebrating must be going on in his office.
One of the questions we asked in Cleveland was “what should Cleveland had done differently?”, expecting ex post policy prescriptions for half a century ago. Multiple answers instead went back over a century and pointed to pissing off John D. Rockefeller by trying to aggressively tax him when he came to town while his wife was dying (John covered this). So the University of Cleveland became the University of Chicago.
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Don’t Be Cleveland: Rich Barton Says Bye Bob, Don’t Be Cleveland: Janicki Industries Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Seattle Mayor Says Bye, Don’t be Cleveland: Snap Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Howard Schultz Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Starbucks Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Amazon’s Exit, Don’t be Cleveland: Meta, Oracle, and Others Say “Bye Bob” (Ferguson)
Don’t Be Seattle: World Cup Edition
The hits keep coming.
Exit, Pursued by Data Center
Quite the dilemma for Seattle officials: who do they hate more, data centers or Starbucks?
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Don’t be Cleveland: Seattle Mayor Retcons Her Starbucks History, Don’t be Cleveland: Howard Schultz Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Starbucks Says “Bye Bob”, The Coming Battle for Bed Bath & Beyond, Actions Have Consequences: Data Center Resistance Edition, Good News for Nuclear Power, Bad News for Data Centers, Don’t Be Cleveland or Seattle? The Data Center Resistance, You Can’t Blame Data Centers in Seattle for Our Skyrocketing Electricity Prices, Release the (Electrical) Scapegoat!, The Pain in Maine Stems Mainly from the Insane, The Pain in New England Stems Mainly from the Insane, The Pain in Maine Compounds
The Enduring Cultural (and Agentic) Legacy of Minesweeper
