Local startup’s fake coffee put to the test; how Amazon is and isn’t different under Andy Jassy; local Audubon Society wants a less slavery-connected name; a milestone of sorts for this li’l e-missive.

Artful narratives at Seattle Art Fair and Forest for the Trees; Rainier Ave. Lowe’s won’t become an Amazon warehouse; big hole in front of City Hall to stay a big hole for now; we’re having a heat wave.

A BIPOC-oriented ‘D&D’ adventure book; UW hospitals have more COVID patients now than last winter; JumpStart payroll tax won’t be re-challenged; how some Boeing contractors have (or haven’t) survived the slump in new-aircraft orders.

‘Amazon vs. Microsoft’ employee art show scrapped; feds investigating Amazon warehouse conditions; WA GOP’s misleading campaign ads and other schemes; the most dangerous place in town for walkers and bikers.

Student signatures from 1938 found on rediscovered school blackboard; Julio Rodriguez makes a splashy ‘national stage’ debut; local hospitals are overcrowded again; Idaho GOP wants even harsher laws against women.

KSTW has a local newscast again (sort-of); Mariners’ miracle run reaches 14 straight wins; King County back in ‘high’ COVID level; Sony buys local game-maker Bungie.

Seattle Art Fair (and big ‘alternative’ exhibits) return; competing voting-reform measures on city Nov. ballot; COVID subvariant case counts keep growing; are Starbucks’ ‘safety’ closures really anti-union moves?

City park to take ‘space age’ theme; major COVID outbreak at SeaTac federal detention center; state Supreme Court to rule on capital-gains tax; Harrell’s big cop-hiring plan.

Exhibit shows a different aspect of Bruce Lee; revised high-rise plan saves El Corazon building; Amazon ‘Prime Day” and its (many) discontents; homelessness results when (duh) people can’t afford homes.

MoPOP exhibit shows the more diverse aspects of feminist punk; man threatens to shoot Rep. Pramila Jayapal; Starbucks closing five Seattle stores over ‘safety’ claims; is Amazon getting into cancer vaccines?

U Book Store emphasizes online sales to survive; wages here rise, but rent rises more; City Council might put ‘ranked choice’ voting referendum on Nov. ballot; the big local company that hasn’t increased workers’ abortion benefits.

‘Story map’ shows local racial struggles, SPD responses in the 20th century; local Proud Boys member says he’s (wrongly) cited in Jan. 6 probe; unions say Amazon used ‘cherry-picked’ worker-safety data; a second unofficial Banksy show’s in town.

Records reveal years of brutality and death at Tulalip Boarding School; SCOTUS rules for Bremerton high-school coach’s pregame prayers; Jayapal suggests a national ‘women’s strike;’ SPD sends in a SWAT team after officers claim they felt ‘intimidated’ at Lyles shooting inquest.

SCOTUS ‘Roe’ decision sparks large protests here and elsewhere, affects the mood at the returning Pride parade, draws many responses from politicians and corporations; Mariners, Angels engage in an old-fashioned baseball brawl.

Locally-set novel about a tech mogul who uploads his consciousness; gruesome details at Charleena Lyles shooting inquest; WA pastor calls for LGBTQ mass murder; strike at 1st & Pike Starbucks.