Podcast investigates the Tacoma Police killing of Manuel Ellis; Seattle teachers’ strike is on; remembering the Whidbey Island plane-crash victims; GOP Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley’s ‘erased’ her former 2020-election remarks from her website.

Will Seattle teachers walk out today?; 1 dead, 9 missing in Puget Sound plane crash; Pacific Place downtown mall won’t be turned into offices after all; striking Starbucks workers find support on social media.

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.

Sausage and hydro-racing mogul Art Oberto RIP; Seattle teachers’ union still negotiating a contract; ex-Garfield swim team member alleges ‘sexual hazing;’ Ms’ rookie superstar Julio Rodriguez signs a mega-deal.

Fourteen artist-inscribed stone benches at Volunteer Park; Paul Allen’s $1 billion art collection up for auction; NLRB blasts another Starbucks anti-union ploy; could Seattle home prices plunge as much as 20 percent?

Garfield High’s COVID-delayed centennial; overdoses up, here and around the NW; female Nintendo game testers allege sexual harassment by male staff; Danny Westneat’s mistaken again.

‘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.

‘African Streetwear’ in a pop-up storefront; City Council passes SPD hiring incentives; Bill Gates’s role in getting Inflation Reduction Act passed in US Senate; Calif. Amazon air-freight workers walk off.

AI engineer creates a jazz band with a robot vocalist; selling Seattle rain to LA tourists; Starbucks wants feds to stop unionization votes; religious ‘crisis pregnancy’ centers offer medically questionable ‘abortion pill reversals.’

Saving the 1887 Tacoma house of a Black community builder; rents still skyrocket here and nationally; several weekend shootings plus a dreadful light-rail-platform death; a single Amazon Go deli-mart’s temporary closure doesn’t mean Seattle’s dying.

Four decades of Seattle microbrews (some less micro- than others); COVID lockdowns were good for area birds; Harborview’s overcrowded and won’t take most new patients; West Seattle bridge reopens on 9/18.

The (skimpy) truth about early Seattle madam Lou Graham; Dr. Fauci comes to town to get an award; City Council adds protections for abortion patients; US fascists take the gloves off and put the dog whistles down.

A Northwest-themed ‘Cards Against Humanity’-clone game; pro-MAGA rival inches ahead of Rep. Herrera Beutler; regional ‘arts and culture sector’ still struggling; original Kidd Valley burger joint to close.

A women-led exhibition tries to show how art and tech can coexist; updated primary totals don’t change much; how city-council districts might be redrawn; two Black Muslims sue Alaska Airlines after getting kicked off a flight.

GameWorks arcade’s reopening; coach Pete Carroll has COVID (and councilmember Sara Nelson might); interim city neighborhoods chief becomes deputy mayor; crashed ferry’s captain resigns.