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7/12/21: VAT’S THE WAY IT IS
Jul 11th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Ste. Michelle wines sold to a private-equity firm; Kshama Sawant would rather face a recall vote in November than in a primary; who gave the word to shut the East Precinct last year; Hoquiam police post ‘jokes’ about a troubled man who jumped from a bridge.

7/8/21: THE 12-EGG OMELET LIVES!
Jul 7th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Beth’s Cafe reopens; smaller-scale music fest to take Bumbershoot’s place this fall; King County councilmember tries to prevent huge light-rail project delays; yes, climate change had a role in the recent heat wave.

7/7/21: THE MAIL, AND OTHER ANCIENT TRADITIONS
Jul 7th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Tlingit art on a new postage stamp; how Amazon affected Seattle and vice versa; big Pentagon cloud contract rescinded; state of emergency declared over WA wildfire danger.

7/6/21: BURNT ‘LUMBER’
Jul 5th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

White Center gay bar destroyed by fire; new Amazon CEO enters as worker-organizing drives continue; activists sort out how to make Aurora Ave. less pedestrian-hostile; still waiting for the border to reopen.

7/1/21: CULTURE AGAINST CRIMES AGAINST NATURE
Jun 30th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Banksy ‘repurposes’ an old Mt. Rainier painting as a climate protest; day one of WA’s ‘reopening’; a Seattle cop shoots a suspect in a Puyallup home; a GOP politician compares vaccine guidelines to the Holocaust.

6/30/21: WE’RE (STILL) HAVIN’ A HEAT WAVE
Jun 29th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Continuing impacts of the scorching weather abound, as the state finally reaches The Big Reopening; the state bails out Point Roberts’ only grocery; a brutalist UW dorm tower won’t get razed for now.

6/16/21: THE SCREENLESS VIEW
Jun 15th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

The new novelty of real museum-going; King County goes maskless on 6/29; from whence Seattle’s primary-campaign money is coming; remembering Vancouver’s 2011 hockey riot.

6/9/21: NO POLE POSITION
Jun 9th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Will Central Disrict’s library ‘Soul Pole’ come back?; 100,000 drivers’ licenses to be restored; Idaho’s battle between the far-right and the farther-right; KingCo’s small-business contracts ‘overwhelmingly’ go to white-owned companies.

6/8/21: THE RACER IS BACK ON
Jun 7th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Cafe Racer’s fourth opening will be at a second site; federal, state vaccination stats differ; could the Canadian border finally, partly, reopen?; a double-anniversary and new-project announcement.

6/7/21: KOMO COUNTRY SPLIT-UP
Jun 6th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

Longtime TV-radio combo divorcing; 40 years since AIDS pandemic’s start; Neptune Theatre’s reopening date; Seattle nears 70 percent fully vaxxed.

5/24/21: ‘MUTUAL’ NETWORKS
May 23rd, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

SU law prof’s book exhorts ‘mutual aid’ efforts (and anti-capitalism); one Mariner has COVID; a network news story’s ex-SPD ‘spokes-cop’ has a history of harassment; Amazon expands its ‘executive’ ranks for better diversity stats.

5/19/21: EVERYTHING RETRO IS NEO AGAIN
May 18th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

The Olympic Hotel’s quasi-steampunk new bar; the Java Jive will survive; county, state launch programs to help renters stay housed; did rowdy football fans turn Amazon’s HQ2 search away from Philly?

5/14/21: A CONFERENCE ROOM FOR ONE
May 13th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

The ‘office of the future’ may have an alone-time tent; we can go maskless now (sometimes), while the whole state reopens on 6/30; more criticism about Durkan’s missing texts and Diaz’s non-disciplinary action.

5/13/21: HIGH RESOLUTIONS
May 12th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

‘Oregon Trail’ computer game updated (and made more historically accurate); younger vaccinations about to start; SPD chief won’t discipline the officer who ordered tear gas and blast bombs on June protesters; a $1.5 million settlement for Che Taylor’s family.

A MOSTLY-SHAMELESS PLUG
May 11th, 2021 by Clark Humphrey

My new book that’s (mostly) by other people; that big, brief, local movie shoot; King County’s buying hotels to house some of the homeless; Seattle’s newest mayoral candidate is an ex-mayor/governor’s grandkid.

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