Comix artist Jon Strongbow RIP; Inslee wants to ban assault weapons; could offshore wind towers threaten whales?; 83 percent of WA kids have had COVID.

Local Xmas records of note; downtown crime is apparently ‘on the decline;’ area hiring remains strong despite tech layoff; massive waterfront highway gets an Indigenous ‘honorary name.’

Supporters and allies greet Drag Queen Story Hour; Councilmember Lisa Herbold won’t run again; US senators question a tiny WA bank’s role in Big Crypto; should Amazon ‘rethink its business from scratch’?

Tom Dyer’s 40-song ode to Oly; marking 10 years since the same-sex wedding spectacular at City Hall; window shot at Renton drag-queen story hour site; FTC sues to stop Microsoft from taking over Activision Blizzard.

Last Boeing 747 leaves assembly line; appeals court upholds most counts against Tim Eyman; First Baptist Church puts its land up for sale; is Amazon turning its back on customer experience?

Margarethe Cammermeyer’s story retold to mark 10 years of marriage equality; Ed Troyer trial testimony gets ‘absurd;’ Amazon layoff levels could grow; UW’s star quarterback will be back.

‘Running While Black’ author’s new KCTS series; court again rejects SPD officers’ suit against Sawant; Amazon to keep selling antisemitic video; does the state really need an ‘organized retail theft task force’?

The late Octavia Butler’s sci-fi visions enthrall new generations; City Council passes budget (barely); King County sues DSHS over ‘leaving defendants with mental illness in jail;’ the tiny WA bank tied up in a crypto firm’s crash.

New book by a ‘poet and former cage fighter;’ city budget plan has three City Council dissenters; Willows Inn closes after sexual-harassment claims; ‘millions in unpaid tickets’ remain from West Seattle Bridge-related traffic violations.

A disconnected landline phone for ‘calling’ long-gone loved ones; film programmer Ruth Hayler RIP; Everett shooting victim gets away by vehicle but not very far; restricting police hi-speed chases saves bystanders’ lives.

Native American Heritage Month-themed art shows; still more city budget details; free home COVID tests to end; human programmers sue Microsoft over ‘self-writing’ AI coding project.

Psychiatric nurse helps the homeless, and seeks help for her own burnout; more about the almost-final city budget plan; injury pauses Sunny Day Real Estate’s reunion tour; Cafe Nordo’s last act (for now).

Fantagraphics marks 40 years of ‘Love & Rockets;’ a local memorial to traffic deaths had to update its numbers; Rep. Jayapal doesn’t like the big supermarket-merger plan; Starbucks closing another unionized store, again supposedly over ‘safety concerns.’

Science fiction author Greg Bear RIP; local reactions to deadly Colorado gay-bar shooting; troopers kill man who stole and rolled-over a semi on I-5; Tammy Morales wants a social-housing program back in he city budget.

‘Ted Lasso’ cheers on US soccer stars; alleged Ingraham shooter, 14, could be tried as an adult; City Council to debate a shrunken budget proposal; how Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won against all odds.