Seattle's socialist mayor reverses course on Starbucks boycott as coffee giant eyes Nashville expansion

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson spent last fall rallying with barista union organizers and urging the public to stop buying Starbucks. Now, with the company building a 2,000-person corporate office in Nashville, Wilson wants everyone to know she's changed her mind. Wilson, a 43-year-old self-described democratic socialist, told The New York Times this week that her earlier anti-Starbucks remarks "were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good." The reversal came just months after she stood at a barista union rally as mayor-elect and, in November, declared to KUOW: "I am not buying Starbucks, and you should...