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Weekend Road Closures & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
After the cluster that was Seattle traffic last night–all from a semitruck carrying a load of salmon that overturned on SR 99–drivers are preparing for more potential traffic nightmares this weekend. Starting Friday, March 27, road closures are set to happen all throughout the city, including portions of Interstate 90, SR 99 and the Alaskan Way Viaduct. See the WSDOT website for up-to-the-minute information on the closures.
Beginning July 1, Emirates is adding another daily nonstop flight to Dubai out of Sea-Tac. Its first direct flight to Dubai started in March 2012, reports The Puget Sound Business Journal.
This past Sunday, Starbucks ended its controversial and much-criticized Race Together campaign, in which baristas at the coffee chain were supposed to engage customers in conversations about racial issues. The move prompted critics to believe that Race Together’s demise was due to its negative reception among customers and media, however Gawker reports that Race Together was always supposed to end on Sunday. “Starbucks seems to be getting undue credit for responding to customer feedback (it didn’t), and not enough credit for imagining that this was not just a good idea, but such a good idea that it could actually accomplish its goals in a week,” writes Gawker contributor Jay Hathaway. Also this: “Although, to be fair to Starbucks, if the point of the campaign was to cement Howard Schultz’s legacy, it worked. He’ll always be the guy who sold the SuperSonics.”
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