Charles Burns’ career-encompassing graphic novel; more storm fixup/cleanup as a new storm looms; City Council OKs JumpStart-diverting budget; Dave Ross leaving KIRO radio after 46 years.

Last Sears in WA (one of the last anywhere) closing; Lake Union streetcar lives for now; Amazon joins Musk in trying to kill federal Labor Board; the MAGA cult as a study in target marketing.

Sub Pop’s remastered Gits reissues; Seattle school-board head target of recall drive; local minister/homeless advocate accused of owning child-porn; Ferguson keeps fighting abortion-pill restrictions.

‘Art-filled entryway’ brightens office tower lobby; ex-J&M Cafe building up for auction; remembering a beloved Capitol Hill street cat; more election fallout.

Remembering a music legend’s Seattle roots; Machinists vote to end Boeing strike; Bell Canada buys a WA legacy phone/broadband company; oh, and something else is happening today.

Reminders of a funkier pre-tech Seattle; pre-election-day polls show a solid blue wave here; Inslee OKs 24-mile-long wind farm near Tri-Cities; Boeing CEO’s ultimatum to striking Machinists ahead of contract vote.

‘The drear’ comes again to our northern clime; city budget counter-proposal still raids JumpStart housing money; Amazon investing in nuclear power; big earthquake strikes far off the Oregon coast.

The continuing scene of ‘renegade’ EDM parties; machinists’ strike goes on, as Boeing loses $6 billion; dad assaults teen son who outs himself; the WA Democrat who won’t admit to voting for Harris.

New York mag’s doting profile of Christopher Rufo; SAM security staff prepare to strike; Bellevue OKs affordable housing on church properties; Harrell wants to ‘repeal blast-ball ban for protests.’

How to drink (moderately) through a birthday; Councilmember Tanya Woo wants no-protest zones around politicians’ homes; a robotic salad shop’s opening on Capitol Hill; Fall City teen charged with killing five people.

Remembering a beloved local sportscaster (and a ‘hyperlocal’ news blogger); Boeing machinists to vote on a new contract proposal; Andrea Suarez ads ‘appear to darken’ opponent Shaun Scott’s skin color to make him seem menacing.

New book collects comics of Japanese American life in Seattle; striking machinists hold big rally; famed local artist Gloria Bornstein dies; is Seattle politics really both too antagonistic AND close-knit?

Scarecrow Video raises enough money to survive for now; Harrell could divert even more JumpStart money; SPD might leave federal oversight soon; UW biochemist co-wins a Nobel Prize.

SAM’s lobby ‘tree’ installation going away; Auburn tightens anti-homeless law; Boeing, machinists to resume contract talks; conflicting protests mark one year of the Gaza siege.

Grand Illusion Cinema needs a new home; Sara Nelson says she wants to save Seattle Channel; woman killed in W. Seattle shooting was an ex-doctor and Jan. 6 riot participant; who vandalized Bellevue’s Pride mural?