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  • Espresso Tax does not pass

    09/16/2003 8:25:59 PM PDT · by wallcrawlr · 79 replies · 253+ views
    Seattle PI ^ | 9.16.03
    City Of Seattle Initiative No. 77 Espresso Tax Yes 13147 31.71% No 28307 68.29%
  • PC coffee 'brewhaha' spineless in Seattle

    07/25/2002 9:36:51 PM PDT · by kattracks · 6 replies · 232+ views
    TownHall.com ^ | 7/26/02 | Debra Saunders
    So here I am in Seattle, America's coffee capital, and the flacks at Starbucks won't even talk to me about the measure on Berkeley's November ballot that would require coffeehouses to sell only Fair Trade, organic or shade-grown coffee. (Fair Trade means the importers paid growers at least $1.26 cents per pound for coffee beans. Shade-grown coffee, the measure explains, "is planted in a shaded, forest-like setting created by a canopy of trees," which provides habitat for native songbirds.) Violators would be subject to a $100 fine, six months behind steel bars or both. Tully's and Seattle's Best Coffee...