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11:20am

Thu April 19, 2012
Starbucks controversy

Stung by bug controversy, Starbucks switches ingredients

Can you see the bug juice?
Ben Adams / Flickr

In response to the hubbub started by Change.org, Starbucks has announced today that it will stop using the bug extract cochineal as a colorant in four food and two beverage offerings in the United States, according to its Website.

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4:12pm

Wed April 11, 2012
Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage foes take Starbucks attacks abroad

Starbucks says it will treat customers with respect regardless of their position on the issue.
The Associated Press

A group that opposes same-sex marriage is taking its boycott of Starbucks to the other side of the world.

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1:11pm

Tue February 21, 2012
Business

Redbox took out Blockbuster, will its $1 coffee take out Starbucks?

What the new coffee kiosk looks like.
tech-media-tainment blog /

Perhaps Starbucks has gotten so good at making coffee without people that it sees brick-and-mortar coffee shops as a thing of the past - much how Redbox’s automated DVD dispensing helped usher in the demise of the video store.

Or, perhaps the deal it has struck with Bellevue-based Coinstar (which owns Redbox) to dispense Starbucks' Seattle’s Best brand coffee for a buck at every convenience store and street corner across the nation is just a way to make a … buck.

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4:00am

Tue January 24, 2012
Money Matters

Starbucks is flying high

The original Starbucks logo at Seattle's Pike Place Market. 9/18/2009
mediafury / flickr.com

2011 was a terrific year for the Seattle-based Starbucks coffee chain. The stock shot up 43% last year and recently hit record highs.

Financial commentator Greg Heberlein and KPLU's Dave Meyer look at the successful company on this week's Money Matters.

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4:19pm

Wed October 5, 2011
Education

Swing by Starbucks to help local classroom projects

El patojo / Flickr

What do coffee drinkers and teachers have in common?

A shared passion to educate local school kids. At least, that’s what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Starbucks are counting on. The two mega-institutions have teamed up to help King County public school teachers get money for unfunded classroom projects.

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6:22pm

Tue September 6, 2011
Business

Update: Starbucks CEO calls for lower corporate tax rate

During his much publicized "town hall" meeting called to criticize Washington D.C. partisanship, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz also called for a lower corporate tax rate.
Associated Press

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is calling for a lower corporate tax rate. Schultz made his comments during a town hall meeting Tuesday night hosted by the anti-partisanship group “No Labels”

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7:00am

Mon September 5, 2011
Conversation with America

Put down coffee, pick up phone says Starbucks CEO

Howard Schultz, shown in this 2009 photo, wants you to make some phone calls.
Associated Press

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been in a letter writing mood lately and that’s earned him lots of supporters to his political cause.

A few weeks ago, Schultz asked fellow CEOs to join him in freezing campaign contributions to politicians until they end what he calls their “hyper-partisan” behavior. Now he wants to talk to the rest of America.

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11:03am

Tue August 16, 2011
Campaign Finance

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz calls for a boycott on campaign contributions

Kin Cheung / AP

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wants some change in Washington D.C. and the best way to get it, he says, is by boycotting donations to political campaigns. In an open letter sent to Starbucks on Monday, he urged other company heads to withholding campaign contribution until President Obama and Congress solve the nation’s financial woes.  

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