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.’

Theater and art examples of why diversity’s not a frill; new state drug bill passed in one day; Homelessness Authority CEO Mark Dones quits; drive for a big new regional airport’s dead for now.

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.

Kent church parking lot turned into community garden; street clock moving crew damages roof of Westlake transit station; it’s back-to-the-office day at Amazon; more horrid shootings.

David Lasky’s haiku comics; would-be laws against outdoor drug use ‘not likely’ to have much ‘visual impact’; texts reveal more about SPD/city responses in June 2020; should you or shouldn’t you eat WA salmon now?

Rachel’s Ginger Beer founder dies; ‘crisis care centers’ levy passing; gun advocates already challenging WA’s new assault-weapons ban; bacterial outbreak kills four Virginia Mason patients.

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.

Beloved local artist-designer Carl Smool dies; city employees protest Harrell’s 1-percent pay raise proposal; game hacker owes Nintendo $10 million; REI closing store where workers tried to unionize, but blames ‘crime.’

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.

More hate-graffiti at a Capitol Hill synagogue; $10 late-rent fee cap passes City Council; Kraken win their first-ever playoff game; just what is ‘Space Needle thinking’?

Mural of Seattle icons done all in pencil; Harrell details parts of his big downtown plan; Soundgarden members reach settlement with Chris Cornell’s widow; local Navy vet runs pro-Putin propaganda account.

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.