Gillian G. Gaar on Elton John (and much else); Inslee wants more housing, shelters, and sweeps; city issues a ‘dire’ revenue forecast; Amazon’s ‘Treasure Trucks’ grounded for good.

Aquarium expansion, Market-to-waterfront walkway now under construction; city sues opioid makers’ PR firm; Tacoma’s guaranteed-income program’s a temporary success; can progressives learn to at least talk persuasively to each other?

Still more local Halloween hijinx; Dems pour big $ into Murray re-election drive; Inslee plans more pro-choice proposals for the next Legislature; federal agents spied on 2020 Portland protesters.

Film photography’s big comeback; City Council’s ‘resident concern troll;’ Amazon stock price drops 20 percent; woman sues psychiatric hospital that kept her against her will.

Local doctor’s memoir on the bad ol’ pre-‘Gray’s’ years for women in medicine; D’Vonne Pickett’s alleged killer may have ‘harassed’ him for years; COVID disruptions were bad for school test scores; floods might replace wildfires.

Local Halloween-related sights and costume concepts; Seattle Colleges’ budget deficit much lower than previously estimated; Portland mayor wants to ban encampments; the weather (at last, at least) is back to normal.

MOHAI’s big AI exhibit; friends, neighbors mourn Central District community advocate fatally shot near his business; El Corazon building (again) threatened by redevelopment; waiting for the cleansing rains to arrive at last.

Nooksack designer Louie Gong’s ‘Sasquatch Collection’ shoes; someone’s defacing Kshama Sawant’s house; Seattle’s Best Coffee sold to Nestlé; state could pay big $ over mentally-ill defendents stuck in jails.

Studying (and saving) ‘mid-century modern’ apartments; Chamber of Commerce poll shows support for housing; why crews sometimes let wildfires keep burning; two more days of smoky skies.

Peter Bacho’s book on growing up Filipino in Seattle; more wildfires mean more smoke; four city Human Rights Commission members quit; domestic-violence survivor fired from Amazon when she asks for time off to recover.

Another concept for ‘reviving’ Third Ave.; Mariners drag it out to the bitter (elongated) end; grocery clerks’ union opposes Kroger/Albertsons merger; King County scraps expanded-shelter plan in SoDo.

Kroger wants to eat up Albertsons/Safeway, to make a near-monopoly on NW grocery sales; Harrell wants more $ for encampment sweeps; court says UW must pay PETA $540,000 in a records lawsuit; wildfire smoke’s back, and 80-degree temps could be.

Local doc profiles railway tycoon James Hill; labor judge slams Starbucks’ union busting; Nazi-sympathetic blogger had short-lived job with state GOP; security guard reportedly assaults handcuffed woman.

Documentary celebrates Tacoma’s instro-rock legends the Ventures; can indie artists benefit from NFTs?; Alaska Airlines ‘redirects’ Portland Timbers/Thorns sponsorship $$; female hummingbirds adapting to avoid male aggression.

Local waterway gets Indigenous-honoring name; Mariners keep doing the impossible; local concrete co. could help US Supreme Court in union-busting; trying to shame car drivers who park in bike lanes.