Showing where the most encampments have been targeted; HoneyHole Sandwiches ex-manager sends a harsh email rant; Harrell could pare down ‘missing middle housing’-allowed zones; Spokane preacher calls for murdering LGBTQ+-accepting teachers.

25 years of Roq La Rue; City Council’s next Great Left Hope?; homeless are at greatest risk for opioid ODs; is Vegas ‘Seattle’s true twin city’?

Thomas A. Doyle nixes a TAD reunion; Alberta wildfire smoke drifts here; new condo tower cuts prices 30 percent; COVID aid programs as an ‘experiment in single-payer care.’

SIFF to reopen (and rename) the Cinerama; Metro’s dropping more routes; we just had a really bad flu season; gay men can donate blood again.

SIFF short spoofs Microsoft’s biggest PR bash; Pagliacci to start pizza-delivery drones; who’s trolling a woman with fake ‘$500 reward’ key chains?; it’s ‘end of COVID emergency’ day.

Author Megan Asaka on western WA’s early, nonwhite laboring class; layoffs hit FareStart; Kraken demolishes Dallas; will Redmond pay city council enough to afford to live there?

Backyard cottage program for the homeless touts success; guilty plea in CHOP killing; Microsoft exec says AI ‘could cause real damage;’ Kraken owners want contract to replace Memorial Stadium.

Archie McPhee marks 40 years of rubber chickens; West Seattle Bridge off ramp closed with a big hole; Seattle schools start planning for big budget cuts; a judge could close an entire Alaska salmon fishery to help orcas.

PNB’s first Black female soloist and her many other achievements; Bob Ferguson’s likely to run for gov; Arlington Pride says it’s been asked to keep drag queens out; 30 years of the WWW as we know it.

Olympia counter-protest defends WA’s new trans-youth protection law, as Legislative session winds down; father of police-shooting victim sues SPD; remembering the victims of old Native boarding schools.

Can the Grand Illusion Cinema survive?; does Seattle ‘have a culture’? (hint: I say yes); housing prices dip but housing crisis remains; Seattle publisher fires kids’-book illustrator who spread transphobic flyers.

Exhibit shows how I-5 construction decimated part of the Chinatown-International District; ‘transit-oriented’ housing bill watered down; Costco reports slowing sales growth; West Seattle’s Yen Wor Village dive bar closes.

Jinkx Monsoon, from Seattle drag stages to ‘Doctor Who’; community mourns Elijah Lewis; Bainbridge special-needs student allegedly locked in a police car; state suing Google over online-ad monopoly.

What (or rather who) is/isn’t in new Seattle Literary Map; Harrell launches $970 million affordable-housing levy drive; City Council candidate accused of reneging on paying campaign workers; Happy Indictment Day!

An all Asian-American online comedy talk show; state Supreme Court upholds WA capital gains tax; light rail station-site dispute goes on despite board meeting’s decision; ‘world’s oldest working drag queen’ dies at 92.