Aquarium expansion, Market-to-waterfront walkway now under construction; city sues opioid makers’ PR firm; Tacoma’s guaranteed-income program’s a temporary success; can progressives learn to at least talk persuasively to each other?

Peter Bacho’s book on growing up Filipino in Seattle; more wildfires mean more smoke; four city Human Rights Commission members quit; domestic-violence survivor fired from Amazon when she asks for time off to recover.

A conversation confab with human ‘books;’ the entire ‘aPodments’ chain’s for sale; Facebook found guilty of 822 campaign-finance violations; the Mariners’ postseason return stars today at last.

Local author on how to mentally survive on a changing planet; 191 texts were ‘manually deleted’ from Durkan’s phone after 2020 protests; local crab populations ‘flourishing’ but still not salmon; Congressional candidate Joe Kent tries to distance himself (but not too far) from far-right extremists.

A Stranger writer’s history of queer comedy in TV sitcoms; school in Seattle starts at last; NYT essay lauds Seattle’s JustCare housing program; Starbucks to spend millions on store automation (while still union-busting).

Playwright August Wilson’s Seattle legacy; Kent teacher strike continues; does ‘suppressing’ wildfires just make the crisis worse?; while local media seem to care only about cops, the Seattle Fire Dept.’s also understaffed and spending millions in OT pay.

‘New Skid Road Theatre’ presents a Pioneer Square historical revue; how downtown is and isn’t recovering; salmon as a local Indigenous religion; UW prof’s new book shows red-state regimes as increasingly anti-democracy.

12-year-old game developer featured at Emerald City Comic Con; an ‘NYT’ profile depicts Gravity Payments’ Dan Price as both a PR genius and an abuser of several women; more light-rail construction delays on all three projects; the preseason Seahawks look not-very-good.

Graphic-novel creator Jim Woodring gets a ‘New Yorker’ paean; right-wing culture warriors get even more aggressive/stupid; monkeypox vax doses to get smaller; wine (including winery tourism) is now a bigger biz in WA than apples.

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.

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.

Lava Lounge building burns; Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic closing Yesler site; Pac-12 loses both LA schools; whether or not to celebrate this July 4.

Seattle’s vast, post-lockdown music scene(s); Charleena Lyles’ father’s emotional inquest testimony; Amazon limits ‘Plan B’ pill orders; why we can’t have more tourist-beloved shopping alleys.

Charles Johnson co-creates an Afro-Futurist-Buddhist graphic novel; Teatro ZinZanni’s post-COVID, post-Woodinville comeback; wildfire forces evacuations near Soap Lake; a pro-choice state constitutional amendment isn’t likely.

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.