The new ‘Skid Road’ book’s parallels to the older one; more institutions impose vaccine requirements; controversial PCC president quits; city attorney Pete Holmes is out of the general-election race.

Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair returns; feds find ‘improprieties’ at Alabama Amazon union vote; city eviction moratorium extended two months; Seattle Rep to stage a musical named after the mechanical shark from ‘Jaws.’

Familiar Pike/Pine flower vendor recovering after being struck by a car; more responses to last weekend’s many shootings; more counties want everyone back in masks (at least while indoors); rural schools have more anti-LGBTQ bullying, and more faculty apathy toward it; Mariners go down 6-0 in first inning, go on to win.

New life (and maybe a new club) in R Place’s old building; Jeff Bezos had his costly li’l suborbital space trip; the Kraken’s about to have its Expansion Draft party/telecast; OR’s Bootleg Fire is so big, it ‘makes its own weather.’

Julia’s on Broadway drag cast goes on strike; WA reaches another grim COVID milestone; attorneys claim Children’s Hospital operating-room mold has had 100 victims; a suspect’s arrested in the 2020 slaying near the CHOP protest zone.

Tlingit art on a new postage stamp; how Amazon affected Seattle and vice versa; big Pentagon cloud contract rescinded; state of emergency declared over WA wildfire danger.

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.

It’s beyond swelter-y out there, just in time to keep folks home who’d been aching to get out and about at last; other things also happened.

An ‘excessive heat watch’ is here; the state eviction moratorium’s renewed with changes; Uber to pay $3.4 million in unpaid sick leave and back pay; an uptick in air travel means an uptick in pollution at Sea-Tac.

A big picture book of local storefront murals; a major heat wave’s still on the way; an early state reopening’s unlikely; a longtime social worker’s past and present battles.

Online educational TV show for kids of color wins national awards; Black UW Police officers claim racist abuse; a major city landmark reopens at last; Microsoft hits $2 trillion in total stock valuation.

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

Walker Rock Garden site is partly sold, being redeveloped; a Pike Place Market legend passes; Aplets & Cotlets maker possibly saved; OSHA data confirms high injury rates among Amazon warehouse workers.

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.

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?