Claire Dederer book ponders good art by bad people; what a new state law about runaway youths DOESN’T do; UW tries for student diversity despite legally-limited tools; Harrell’s not sure whether drug possession should stay a crime.

Ferry runs aground at Bainbridge; I-90 Bridge light-rail tracks need replacing; major COVID-closed restaurant to finally reopen; tech cos. try to hire back their ex-employees—as temps without benefits.

Author, filmmaker separately explore intersections of race and genre; SPD proposes to stop lying as much; port commissioner/alt-weekly founder dies at 75; where to find Seattle’s only public sculpture depicting a real-life female.

Where Seattle ranks among US cities by GDP; KUOW joins NPR in quitting Twitter; Pioneer Square’s venerable Davidson Gallery for sale; Legislature follows a state Supreme Court ruling and makes drug possession a misdemeanor.

VR app explores Central District’s heritage; a federal judge in WA approves ‘abortion pill’ while a federal judge in TX moves to ban it; assault-weapons ban passes in Legislature; would light-rail station construction kill the SIFF Uptown cinemas?

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.

Art/music/DJ space opens in a Ballard storage building; Inslee has the state stock up on one ‘abortion drug;’ why local homelessness persists after all these years; Jon Shirley and the Paul Allen Foundation donate big on the arts.

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.

Trapeze school’s class cutbacks; a community activist dies from the gun violence he opposed; WA abortion providers advised not to even vacation in Idaho; even a boxing legend’s not immune to the housing crisis.

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.

SPD detective/youth-chess mentor ‘Cookie’ Bouldin sues dept., claiming years of gender/race discrimination; county exec Constantine won’t run for governor; Kent schools plan staff cuts; Sawant bill would cap late-rent fees.

Robyn Hitchcock’s local pop anthem turns 25; the Stranger returns to print (at least once); T-Mobile buying Mint Mobile; making the case against a new light rail station near the Chinatown-International District.

Portland-made ‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’ wins Oscar; SPD trainer’s support of anti-gay policies; Sawant’s support of PCC labor actions; phony Safeway employee accused of stealing $700,000 worth of crab from a warehouse.