The UW’s big new greenhouse; post-‘emergency’ COVID era here begins on the Day of the Dead; Lavender Country singer (a lifelong gay activist) dies at 78; Tiffany Smiley’s debate prevarications.

Still more local Halloween hijinx; Dems pour big $ into Murray re-election drive; Inslee plans more pro-choice proposals for the next Legislature; federal agents spied on 2020 Portland protesters.

Film photography’s big comeback; City Council’s ‘resident concern troll;’ Amazon stock price drops 20 percent; woman sues psychiatric hospital that kept her against her will.

Local doctor’s memoir on the bad ol’ pre-‘Gray’s’ years for women in medicine; D’Vonne Pickett’s alleged killer may have ‘harassed’ him for years; COVID disruptions were bad for school test scores; floods might replace wildfires.

Local Halloween-related sights and costume concepts; Seattle Colleges’ budget deficit much lower than previously estimated; Portland mayor wants to ban encampments; the weather (at last, at least) is back to normal.

Nooksack designer Louie Gong’s ‘Sasquatch Collection’ shoes; someone’s defacing Kshama Sawant’s house; Seattle’s Best Coffee sold to Nestlé; state could pay big $ over mentally-ill defendents stuck in jails.

Studying (and saving) ‘mid-century modern’ apartments; Chamber of Commerce poll shows support for housing; why crews sometimes let wildfires keep burning; two more days of smoky skies.

Another concept for ‘reviving’ Third Ave.; Mariners drag it out to the bitter (elongated) end; grocery clerks’ union opposes Kroger/Albertsons merger; King County scraps expanded-shelter plan in SoDo.

Kroger wants to eat up Albertsons/Safeway, to make a near-monopoly on NW grocery sales; Harrell wants more $ for encampment sweeps; court says UW must pay PETA $540,000 in a records lawsuit; wildfire smoke’s back, and 80-degree temps could be.

Local doc profiles railway tycoon James Hill; labor judge slams Starbucks’ union busting; Nazi-sympathetic blogger had short-lived job with state GOP; security guard reportedly assaults handcuffed woman.

William Shatner on the sadness of space as seen from Jeff Bezos’ rocket; Seattle’s COVID ‘state of emergency’ to end; another post-CHOP report instructs SPD to ‘repair public trust;’ city of SeaTac to get the nation’s highest minimum wage (at least for some occupations).

A conversation confab with human ‘books;’ the entire ‘aPodments’ chain’s for sale; Facebook found guilty of 822 campaign-finance violations; the Mariners’ postseason return stars today at last.

Local artist depicts ‘self expression/identity;’ Sen. Murray goes where Tiffany Smiley fears to tread (Capitol Hill); what Amazon may want in the health-care biz; ‘Seattle Times’ shrinkage watch.

Ten photogs making Chinatown-International District documentary; film historian/theater owner Dennis Nyback dies; SPD fires cop who ‘joked’ online about police-violence victims; Melinda French Gates’ $1 billion in investments for women.

Comix on helping people out of homelessness and self-harm; Seattle’s still Sonics-less after an NBA exhibition game; unionizing Starbucks workers ‘fear retaliation;’ suit claims racism at a neighborhood nonprofit.