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The Kraken and a player’s wife don’t like explicit online sex-talk about the player; few surprises (and few incumbents) in first primary-election returns; Sawant’s rent-control bill fails; WA’s suing to stop ID’s ‘abortion travel ban.’
What King County could do instead of filling a landfill past its original capacity; Ann Davison to appeal injunction against anti-graffti law; WA’s got 13 active wildfires; Seattle’s getting its first ‘protected intersection.’
AI bot-written ebooks land (briefly) on an Amazon bestseller list; the would-be Obama bomber’s a Republican from Pasco; ex-Rep. Dave Reichert’s running for governor; still another Bartell Drugs location’s closing.
Author David Neiwert’s tales of NW extremism past & present; Rite Aid’s closing another Bartell’s; Seattle population nears 800,000; Rep. Jayapal’s stalker sentenced.
Harrell gives details about his big downtown plan; Elliott Bay Books at 50; TeatroZinZanni’s got a new ex-church ‘residence;’ trans teen’s family sues Premera Blue Cross to pay for top surgery.
Rep. Adam Smith writes about overcoming chronic pain and anxiety; FTC claims Amazon enrolls customers in Prime w/o consent; alleged Gorge shooter speaks; Seattle’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ street mural outlives some others.
TV producer Shonda Rhimes’ website profiles Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner; Everett co.’s tourist sub missing near Titanic wreckage; Portland radio station’s AI announcer; what Juneteenth means in a time of racist backlashes.
Artist’s collage sent out with ad flyers; Kraken arena people picked to replace Memorial Stadium; Seattle’s getting a new telephone area code; UW researchers get tentative contract offer.
Comics creators’ financial struggles; trans woman who wanted to attend a women’s spa gets death threats; new housing levy approved to go to ballot; Amazon’s cloud-services business hits a snag.
Local books cover neon signs, rain, and feminist history; City Council to vote on Neo-War on Drugs bill; ‘swept’ Burien encampment moves locations, will be re-‘swept;’ the death of a businessman and onetime rock promoter.
Seattle writer pens a comic-book anti-heroine’s Seattle adventures; Amazon Prime may offer free cell service; a local tech co. creates a ‘synthetic NPR host;’ it turns out WA folks are just fine with taxing the 1 percent.
Kids’-book creator refuses to cut racism talk; City Council passes ‘tree ordinance,’ then vows to amend it; salmonella cases traced to cookie dough; an $800,000 child-sexual-abuse settlement.
New book semi-fictionalizes Sacajawea and her journey; Kraken come THIS close to moving on in playoffs; Legislators say they have a drug-bill deal; David Brewster disses diversity in the arts as a mere frill.
Author Megan Asaka on western WA’s early, nonwhite laboring class; layoffs hit FareStart; Kraken demolishes Dallas; will Redmond pay city council enough to afford to live there?
Claire Dederer book ponders good art by bad people; what a new state law about runaway youths DOESN’T do; UW tries for student diversity despite legally-limited tools; Harrell’s not sure whether drug possession should stay a crime.