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Tacoma’s Almond Roca neon sign re-created; Harrell signs, extols new drug law; Snohomish novelty candle maker sues Fla. imitator, wins; local COVID cases creeping back up.
Comic depicts unhoused woman’s struggles, as an ambitious housing program ends; City Council approves new ‘drug war’ bill; city workers rally for a fair new contract; could Microsoft buy Nintendo?
Nighttime video-art installation at City Hall Park; why some places with more poverty don’t have more homelessness; why people don’t get needed mental-health treatment; do you trust SPD to fairly enforce a new drug law?
Marchers want cops who ‘joked’ about woman run over by another cop fired; SPD takes 50 minutes to answer hate-crime call at Wing Luke Museum; 300 affordable units planned at former Rainier Valley 7-Eleven site; a personal tragedy.
Film ‘Fantasy A Gets a Mattress’ shows struggles of being an artist in Seattle; stats show widening local wage gaps; more reaction to post-police-killing ‘joke;’ feds sue Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime subscription practices.
‘Chaos and male fragility’ in ex-Amazonian’s memoir; City Council’s revised war-on-drug bill moves ahead; Lusty Lady sign (what’s left of it) comes down; is or isn’t Seattle an AI industry powerhouse?
Seattle’s newest lesbian bar; cops caught laughing about another cop running over someone; family-friendly shelter units are especially scarce; saving what’s left of Seattle’s historic Black neighborhood.
Deaf playwright’s horror-comedy; QFC (and some Safeways) to be sold off under grocery-merger plan; landlords sued over alleged software-enabled rent collusion; Bob Ferguson becomes one of 11 (so far) announced candidates for governor.
Mutual Fish Co. closing after 76 years; judge opts not to totally end SPD consent decree; Wallingford house fire ruled a homicide-suicide case; suit claims UW Medicine lost a patient’s bladder tumor.
How a jazz pianist’s stay in Pasco led to state anti-discrimination laws; SPD chief denies rumors of an affair with a top advisor; Bainbridge ferry to be passenger-only for a week; Seattle’s ‘at the center of the AI universe.’
Bumbershoot comeback as a Seattle landmark event; Huskies start final Pac-12 season in a rout; Elysian Brewing workers go union; seeking reasons for a fatal Wallingford house fire.
Bumbershoot’s attempted back-to-basics comeback under new mgmt.; Mayor Harrell really tries (awkwardly) to impress ethnic journalists; e-bike ‘lending libraries’ are coming to WA; a hydroplane racing legend dies.
Will the PAX video-game expo outdraw the revived Bumbershoot?; late-summer COVID wave; some non-teaching Seattle Schools staff could strike; fish are ‘dying in droves’ on a Vancouver Island river.
Danish artist’s big recycled-wood statues going up; damp weather doesn’t mean wildfire season’s over; altering light-rail expansion plans will cost time & money; how can Funko stage a ‘Pop!’ comeback?
A hi-tech pizza vending machine; the summer version of ‘SAD;’ why ‘Christian nationalists’ see eastern WA as a target market for authoritarianism; what Seattle school families want (despite a looming budget crisis).