Sea-Tac’s new terminal for an ‘information age’ city; Elliott Bay Books sold; students in Seattle, Oly walk out for safety; Microsoft sez its workers ‘don’t need’ unions.

Omari Salisbury retires his local streaming morning show; SPD gives up on new sexual-assault investigations; city must refund over 200,000 parking tickets after a bureaucratic snafu; trans Amazon workers stage a “die-in” protest at an employee Pride celebration.

Artist Joey Veltkamp’s life-affirming quilts; Harrell’s homelessness plan is, unsurprisingly, big on data; city council passes minimum wage for app workers; local home prices rise 5.6% in just one month.

Beloved bakery’s ex-home destroyed; other tribes don’t want federal recognition for the Duwamish; King County Homeless Authority wants more funding (and more funding sources); Sue Bird and two other Storm players have COVID.

Artist combines Japanese theatrical ‘war masks’ with vaginal symbolism; ‘PayUp’ bill weakened in City Council committee; students protest school shootings (and politicians’ non-reactions); SDOT erases a ‘guerrilla crosswalk.’

‘Black ballerina’ works for racial equity in the arts; more grade-school-shooting responses; Gov. Inslee and Lt. Gov. Heck say they have COVID; Amazon shareholders vote against worker-safety proposals, give CEO Jassy a huge bonus.

Fashionable roller skaters of south Seattle; local reactions to TX school shooting; city council OKs SPD hiring incentives; car crash throws driver off the I-5 bridge.

Cobain guitar sells for millions to an NFL team owner; Schick Shadel Hospital to close; Amazon’s reportedly cutting back on warehouse space; an anniversary wake for the Cafe Racer shooting victims. 

Amazon Labor Union’s head as a style icon?; Councilmember Tammy Morales and others share their abortion stories; Cleveland High students walk out to protest principal’s firing; a ‘Star Trek’ lesson about modern politics.

Columbia City Theater preserved; report says most calls to SPD aren’t crime-related; local theater legend John Aylward dies; Iceland’s prez, in Seattle, pleads for apps/devices that speak his language.

Local lit-legend Charles Johnson joins the graphic-novelist ranks; SPD’s chief defends its consent-decree compliance; women in national-team soccer to get equal pay; WA’s job growth outpaces that of the nation.

Ex-Lava Lounge building nears its doom; thousands of gas-station sites need cleaning up; ex-cop who longed for the old days of lynchings gets his job back; more than 60 sexual-abuse claims at the ICE jail in Tacoma.

Seattle’s once-popular downtown mall may become office space; thousands attend pro-Roe rally/march; why new COVID variants are so successful; drive for equity in school fundraisers.

Tulalip historian/activist on tribal boarding schools’ somber legacy; former ‘pro-choice Republican’ Reagan Dunn votes against County Council’s ‘Roe’ resolution; a COVID-themed musical; what can pro-housing activists learn from Weird Al?

Fake ‘Save Our Yachts’ campaign bashes rich people’s aversion to taxes; most area child care programs are understaffed; another big encampment’s swept; Amazon claims it has good reasons for firing union organizers.