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7/27/21: TO BLOOM AGAIN
Jul 26th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Familiar Pike/Pine flower vendor recovering after being struck by a car; more responses to last weekend’s many shootings; more counties want everyone back in masks (at least while indoors); rural schools have more anti-LGBTQ bullying, and more faculty apathy toward it; Mariners go down 6-0 in first inning, go on to win.

6/30/21: WE’RE (STILL) HAVIN’ A HEAT WAVE
Jun 29th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Continuing impacts of the scorching weather abound, as the state finally reaches The Big Reopening; the state bails out Point Roberts’ only grocery; a brutalist UW dorm tower won’t get razed for now.

6/29/21: FRYING COLORS
Jun 28th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

A rare sign of beauty amid the heat-borne misery; it likely won’t get this hot again this year; Councilmember Mosqueda wants to rename the city’s ‘single family’ zones; today’s mask-off day in King County.

6/24/21: REMEMBERING WHAT YOU’D RATHER FORGET
Jun 23rd, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

A big picture book of local storefront murals; a major heat wave’s still on the way; an early state reopening’s unlikely; a longtime social worker’s past and present battles.

6/22/21: FUN WITH A (DEEPER) PURPOSE
Jun 22nd, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Online educational TV show for kids of color wins national awards; Black UW Police officers claim racist abuse; a major city landmark reopens at last; Microsoft hits $2 trillion in total stock valuation.

6/22/21: TEMPLE, DOOMED
Jun 21st, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Another big historic U District church is razed; ‘critical race theory’ isn’t what the far right says it is; south King County’s vax rate still lags; online petitions ask Jeff Bezos to go into space and stay there.

6/16/21: THE SCREENLESS VIEW
Jun 15th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

The new novelty of real museum-going; King County goes maskless on 6/29; from whence Seattle’s primary-campaign money is coming; remembering Vancouver’s 2011 hockey riot.

615/21: NOT BIRDS, NOT ‘FRASIER’
Jun 14th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Really big container cranes show up; a mayoral candidate’s past DC lobbying work could haunt him; restaurant sexual-misconduct claims could widen to more places; what the city-charter amendment campaign won’t answer.

6/11/21: EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN
Jun 10th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

A big new online encyclopedia of NW hiphop; the Puyallup Fair’s on for this year; several building unions back the Sawant recall drive; (faint) praise for (some) street chaos.

6/2/21: ON THE ROCKS
Jun 1st, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Walker Rock Garden site is partly sold, being redeveloped; a Pike Place Market legend passes; Aplets & Cotlets maker possibly saved; OSHA data confirms high injury rates among Amazon warehouse workers.

5/25/21: DID YOU SAW WHAT I SAW?
May 24th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Tacoma park art has a giant saw and a ‘ghost log’; Alaska cruises coming back; ex-SPD Chief Best’s hints about who ordered the East Precinct emptied last June; Kshama Sawant and Jean Godden both disdain the ‘Compassion Seattle’ charter-amendment campaign.

5/19/21: EVERYTHING RETRO IS NEO AGAIN
May 18th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

The Olympic Hotel’s quasi-steampunk new bar; the Java Jive will survive; county, state launch programs to help renters stay housed; did rowdy football fans turn Amazon’s HQ2 search away from Philly?

5/3/21: PANEL TALK
May 2nd, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Ginormous solar-power farms ‘crop up’ in eastern WA; waiting for the ‘Phase 2’ relegation; very different May Day marches with different messages; Boeing wants its workforce to be more ‘pro-diversity’ if not actually more diverse.

4/21/21: AFTER THE VERDICT
Apr 21st, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Local reactions to Derek Chauvin conviction; council candidate Nikkita Oliver’s plan for public safety; Amazon’s opening its own hair salon (full of its own products); what’s wrong with the name ‘Salish Sea.’

4/13/21: ‘UNDERGROUND’ ROCK
Apr 12th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Local music legends are now namesakes of a sewer-tunnel digging machine; Pierce County gets rolled back to ‘phase 2;’ county exec wants sheriff to resign; Seattle Go Center’s building will be gone.

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