John Oliver disses Boeing’s corporate priorities; county deputies asked to not enforce Burien camping ban; skyrocketing costs for salmon-friendly water passages; four years since the first COVID shutdowns.

Locally made sci-fi film premieres; Legislature goes home leaving a lot of dead bills; major racial gap remains in SPD use-of-force cases; Elon Musk disses Mackenzie Scott’s philanthropy (and its recipients).

Artists’ variations on Charles Peterson’s classic Nirvana photos; Harrell’s Comprehensive Plan gets more criticism; NTSB head slams Boeing’s disaster response; Zulily may get an in-name-only comeback.

City finally releases new Comprehensive Plan, with far less new housing than advocates want; Muni Court judge denies allegations of bias; Burien makes homelessness (more) illegal; did Legislative Dems sell out LGBTQ youth?

The first Black woman to hold public office in WA dies; six protesters arrested at City Council meeting; Starbucks to negotiate with union organizers; another Boeing whistleblower speaks out.

Ginny Ruffler’s LED Aurora Borealis in Ballard; Legislature OKs more ‘micro apartments’ in more places; a proud ‘job hopper’ speaks up; Sounders and pre-season Mariners get started.

Black History Month art & music picks; cop who struck Jaahnavi Kandula won’t be charged; Seattle takes back part of Regional Homelessness Authority’s funding; Boeing’s 737 program head resigns.

Fictional Seattles in film, TV, and games; Harrell’s ‘State of the City’ speech short on specifics; labor union supports big grocery merger; Amazon goes on the Dow Jones Industrials.

Ex-Seattle writer/producer self-outs as trans at age 63; Japanese Americans protest at ICE jail; county sues child-care contractor for nonpayment; Redmond rainbow crosswalk defaced in hate crime.

Tessa Hulls’ graphic novel spans 100 years in China and the US; highlights of HistoryLink’s 25 years of yesterdays; Amazon wants the National Labor Relations Board to go away; one local bank’s buying, another’s selling.

Charles Peterson’s Nirvana pix in new book; charter school partly funded by Russell Wilson may have to close; man beaten by Lakewood cops says he hadn’t spit at them; remembering a ‘vivid’ abstract painter.

More on the 50-year legacy of the Boldt Decision; union forming at the Stranger; King County has fewer under-18s compared to 2020; when Seattle had its own Mardi Gras and why it stopped.

Wallingford’s Changes gay bar at 35; Seattle author Neal Stephenson’s 1995 predictions about AI; bill to raise local property-tax cap dies in Legislature; SPD female employees allege harassment and discrimination.

A pop up African American museum in Columbia City this month; a jury award in the case of Children’s Hospital mold infections; kids at a Seattle daycare secretly got fed melatonin; Ristorante Machiavelli’s suddenly closing.

Video game teaches mega-earthquake survival skills; repeal of ‘lewd conduct’ ban in bars passes state Senate; Starbucks told to rehire labor-organizing barista; WSP officers thought woman with ‘bleeding brain’ was just drunk.