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Queer/trans/fat-friendly gym opens in White Center; insurance commissioner Kreidler accused of racist remarks; what a ‘biofiltration treatment swale’ is; did Amazon buy a good ‘workplace equity’ grade from an LGBTQ rights org?
Sixty years of the Monorail; Kirsten Harris-Talley tells why she’s leaving the Legislature; 1,300 homes to go up on Seattle Catholic Archdiocese properties; King County’s population declined in 2021 (just a little).
Photographer depicts urban struggles and tragedies; BBC TV takes a quick peek at Seattle arts; seeking a less-offensive name for the ‘Asian murder hornet’; could the state Legislature turn red?
A local autistic actor’s life lessons; marking two years since the West Seattle Bridge closed; ‘safe lots’ for folks living in vehicles could return; tulip farm workers go on strike in Skagit County.
Remembering the 2014 Oso landslide and its victims; more questions, but not more answers in the China 737 crash; the Broadway and Denny Starbucks will unionize; Seattle Pride declines Amazon’s money.
Netflix doc seeks 737 MAX answers in Boeing’s altered corporate culture; two high-profile downtown sweeps, two different responses; one dead as anti-racist protesters shot in Portland; could U Village become the Last Mall Standing?
Could Seattle Central College shrink (or worse)?; in-person homeless count will occur after all; Durkan thought about turning East Precinct over to hand-picked Black ‘community leaders;’ Clint Dempsey and Hope Solo named to US Soccer Hall of Fame.
A 118-year-old building on Broadway, with a notorious history, could be razed for affordable housing; the last original Ventures member dies; free COVID tests from the state go fast; Zags’ rift with a superstar, anti-mask alum.
Memories of the shop Coffee Messiah; original artist will help restore the CD’s defaced MLK mural; WA omicron infection rate’s still awfully big; PCC’s downtown opening isn’t THAT fiscally courageous.
WA could’ve had a Black governor a half century or so ago; local tsunami alerts follow Pacific volcano blast; student ‘sickout’ demands more COVID safety from schools; restaurant owner accessed of sexual misconduct plans to reopen.
Holiday season, city snow both go away; Seattle schools to hold COVID testing day in lieu of classes; Bruce Harrell privately sworn in as mayor; it was a particularly deadly year on WA state roads.
‘Recall Sawant’ early returns are as predicted (and as incomplete); Seattle’s population growth outpaced the ‘burbs in the 2010s; Amazon Web Services had a big outage; more homeless folk are ailing from a highly preventable condition.
Remembering the early years of the local AIDS fight; King County won’t renew hotel shelter contracts; local pro-choice forces prepare for a possible post-‘Roe’ situation; those ‘end of the Internet’ signs were really book ads.
People rising from the streets are shown above the streets; town of Sumas is flooded again; an ‘invasive European green crab’ teems in local waters; Seahawks almost pull off a last-minute upset.
An out trans woman becomes a high school homecoming queen; King County’s got its first POC (interim) sheriff; a 75-year-old Black woman (and police-accountability activist) is struck with a motor oil can in a racist street attack; what’s so negative about being told to be ‘positive’?