More overhead civic still-lifes; more encampment sweeps; how undercounted are WA COVID deaths?; Amazon shareholders to press for worker safety.

Artists send love to the Chinatown-International District; the ‘New Yorker’ thinks we had a better early COVID response than NYC; Boeing jilts Embraer at the merger altar; ‘the Seattle that existed before March is gone forever’.

Stuck-home UW students make a Minecraft replica campus; Gates has harsh words about a harsh time; Sea-Tac passenger traffic’s almost nil; where’s Bezos? (maybe in Texas).

A sawmill’s remains as seen from above; West Seattle Bridge may be a goner; Sen. Murray wants fed-backed mass testing; foes of the latest ‘Amazon Tax’ cite its potential effects on everybody except Amazon.

An anonymous street artist’s words from role-model women; a three-state pact (we’re by far the hardest-hit) will coordinate COVID responses; Inslee’s early releases may not make prisoners safer; a legal settlement ends the ‘Uber union’ push for now.

Slo-mo drone scenes of a depopulated downtown; Boeing plants won’t reopen yet; why the initial local COVID responses failed; Thunderpussy (finally) gets to trademark its name!

Seattleites “make a joyful noise”; the Kingdome implosion’s remembered as another joyful blast; unemployment applications go way-way up; Gov. Inslee and Bill Gates both say we may have to shut down longer (maybe a lot longer).

The state may ban all 250-or-more local public gatherings; there’s no WA presidential primary winner yet; Boeing workers split on latest contract offer; at least it’s a great time to take a quiet urban bike ride.

Meet the Liberty Bank Building’s mural artist; judge rules against most of anti-I-976 suit; Sawant’s ‘Tax Amazon’ plan now has specifics; imagining what won’t be in Sea-Tac’s new ‘Capitol Hill Food Court’.

The Stranger’s moving into the old Crescent Spice building; local CEOs endorse payroll-tax bill; Cinerama theater shuttered again; aren’t you glad WA doesn’t have Presidential caucuses any more?

Car crash topples a front-yard sculpture made of rotting wood; Swedish strike to be immediately followed by lockout; some local companies won’t let employees visit China; remembering a beloved musician who apparently did himself in.

Photos of the Viaduct’s last days; we’ve got the first US case of Wuhan coronavirus; did the Saudi crown prince hack Jeff Bezos’ cell phone?; a gas thief starts a big leak from a city-owned gas tank into Longfellow Creek.

UW students devise another big plan for the National Guard Interbay site; Swedish nurses set a strike date; is Sprint doomed without the T-Mobile merger?; the side of MLK we need now.

The struggle to get even one Latinx lawmaker elected in Yakima; waiting for the threat/promise of snow; Bernie Sanders gets some local endorsements; why’s the news been so darn heavy these days?

MOHAI’s got a miniature Mont-Saint-Michel plus an AI virtual tour; Amazon threatens to fire workers who question its climate response; Swedish nurses are closer to a strike; Bill Gates sez folks like him should pay more taxes.