A Dexter Ave. tower project indirectly honors a local TV legend; art collector/advocate Virginia Wright RIP; lessons from PBS’s Amazon exposé; payroll-tax bill dies in Legislature (but perhaps not fatally).

Protests want gay Catholic teachers rehired; more praise for Pike Place’s Oriental Mart; Durkan says she’s more of a true progressive than (without naming) Sawant; keeping eagles from dining at the landfill.

Descendants of indigenous and Filipino berry pickers remember; Catholic high school claims two gay teachers ‘voluntarily’ quit (supporters say otherwise); virus panic hurts local businesses; more copper-wire thefts.

PBS ‘Frontline’ says Amazon’s reach is now ‘inescapable’; Sanders coming to a Tacoma rally; state Supreme Court OKs Sound Transit tax calculations; Boeing and engineers reach an early contract deal.

Meet the Liberty Bank Building’s mural artist; judge rules against most of anti-I-976 suit; Sawant’s ‘Tax Amazon’ plan now has specifics; imagining what won’t be in Sea-Tac’s new ‘Capitol Hill Food Court’.

Making and hiding glass art works in Tacoma; more icky chemicals found in the Sound; a judge OKs the T-Mobile/Sprint combine; Boeing had a really lousy month saleswise.

Family ties and the new Seattle Asian Art Museum; free health clinic returns this weekend; a diluted winter-eviction ban passes the City Council; a longtime Madison Park bar is suddenly closed.

Finding sonic gold in ‘NW sound’ pioneer Kearney Barton’s tapes; flooding/mudslide effects remain; Durkan’s running again; will Bezos become a bigtime art collector?

More floods and rescues (of people and animals); the first 737 MAX recertification flight may be near; local restaurant to pay almost a half-mil to past & present workers in a city settlement; local poster artists revive the scrapped Harriet Tubman $20 bill.

The Stranger’s moving into the old Crescent Spice building; local CEOs endorse payroll-tax bill; Cinerama theater shuttered again; aren’t you glad WA doesn’t have Presidential caucuses any more?

An art exhibit celebrating ‘nerd-dom’ in Pt. Angeles; Fred Wildlife Refuge closing; Amazon’s HQ2 scheme was a big ploy for tax breaks; a big HIV vaccine trial’s disappointing end.

A for-profit “selfie museum” lets you show yourself in various artsy settings; a Super Bowl ad salutes Police Chief Best; lotsa floods & mudslides in the region; Ballard P-Patch ‘saved’ for $1.95 million.

The Pacific Science Center’s laser shows are run by real live artists (imagine!); the state ramps up its coronavirus response; a leaked memo sheds info on Blaine border detainments; Amazon’s now worth $1 trillion (in stock value) and has almost 800,000 global workers.

Car crash topples a front-yard sculpture made of rotting wood; Swedish strike to be immediately followed by lockout; some local companies won’t let employees visit China; remembering a beloved musician who apparently did himself in.

Swedish picket lines draw support from near and far; Matt Shea wants back in the state House GOP Caucus; Phoenix Jones arrested on drug charges; game-themed ‘Atari Hotel’ coming to Seattle.