Art and storytelling keep WWII internments remembered; Inslee wants a statewide plan against homelessness; a seed shortage hinders the replanting of burned forests; Nancy Pearl decries school book bans.

Could Seattle Central College shrink (or worse)?; in-person homeless count will occur after all; Durkan thought about turning East Precinct over to hand-picked Black ‘community leaders;’ Clint Dempsey and Hope Solo named to US Soccer Hall of Fame.

George Freeman resurrects ‘The Monastery’ as a colorful church/event space; COVID numbers coming down in western but not eastern WA; local grocery workers’ ‘hazard pay’ to continue; workers at two more local Starbucks want a union.

Could public housing replace part of a major Seattle street?; Orcas Island’s got its own housing crisis; COVID cancels, postpones more events; state sues Google over tracking users who don’t want to be tracked.

Author Neal Stephenson defends utopian fiction; COVID-related staff shortages affect schools, bus service, and more; three more state senators test positive; two Cascade passes still closed.

What will become hotter and lukewarmer during the coming 365.

Photo book recounts the Bertha tunnel project and its many complications; climate change’s role in our current cold snap; “Hoarders” reality-TV creator will work for Bruce Harrell; more proof that music streaming sucks for artists.

A new book pays tribute to Seattle architect Paul Hayden Kirk; we’ll get very cold temps (and maybe also snow); Seattle grocery workers’ ‘hazard pay’ won’t end after all; UW modelers predict a massive COVID wave by February.

Ex-Seattle singer Mark Lanegan tells of his COVID nightmare; BC partly locks down again; two Tacoma officers exonerated over Manuel Ellis’ death; Seahawks clinch their first losing season in a decade.

Redmond bans, then allows, the word ‘Palestine’ on a public art display; what Sawant’s victory doesn’t really mean; schools react to national social-media threats; poetry bookstore moving to Pioneer Square.

There’s a new local-arts mag (on paper!); some retail storefronts are going delivery-only; one year of COVID vax shots in WA; Boeing sells two Renton office buildings cheap.

New book recounts Boeing’s decline-n’-fall; new city attorney’s already making waves; two white dudes caught pretending to be Indigenous artists; Newport High School responds to accusations of abuse by punishing the accuser.

Remembering the early years of the local AIDS fight; King County won’t renew hotel shelter contracts; local pro-choice forces prepare for a possible post-‘Roe’ situation; those ‘end of the Internet’ signs were really book ads.

‘Internet Ends’—or will it?; Comic Con returns (even with at least some stuff about comics!); Sawant recall backers spending big; COVID protocols cancel UW basketball game.

Indigenous contemporary art to view this T-Day weekend, highlighting a list of mostly cultural items left over from recent newsletter issues.