Seafair Torchlight Parade’s reassuring (if smaller) return; state AG Ferguson, Seattle Pacific U trade barbs; what Jon Talton gets wrong about Starbucks (and Seattle); Bill Russell RIP.

Past local musical experiments rediscovered; WA hospitals bleeding $; even at-home workers need transit; COVID vs. ‘I’m over it’: guess who’s winning?

A BIPOC-oriented ‘D&D’ adventure book; UW hospitals have more COVID patients now than last winter; JumpStart payroll tax won’t be re-challenged; how some Boeing contractors have (or haven’t) survived the slump in new-aircraft orders.

Exhibit shows a different aspect of Bruce Lee; revised high-rise plan saves El Corazon building; Amazon ‘Prime Day” and its (many) discontents; homelessness results when (duh) people can’t afford homes.

Pix of travelers returning to local attractions; Amazon workers want company to stop donating to abortion foes; Amtrak will go to Vancouver BC again; what does July 4 mean in a time of internal threats against freedom?

Lava Lounge building burns; Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic closing Yesler site; Pac-12 loses both LA schools; whether or not to celebrate this July 4.

SCOTUS ‘Roe’ decision sparks large protests here and elsewhere, affects the mood at the returning Pride parade, draws many responses from politicians and corporations; Mariners, Angels engage in an old-fashioned baseball brawl.

Fremont Parade (both parts) back in full force; could Amazon run out of potential warehouse workers?; insurance commissioner Mike Kreidler’s pressured to resign; Watergate, at 50, compared to Jan. 6 coup attempt.

‘Banksyland’ touring exhibit and its discontents; West Seattle Bridge has a reopening date (maybe); state Supreme Court ruling ties police ‘seizures’ to race; PACCAR’s making, and King County’s buying, electric garbage trucks.

Sea-Tac’s new terminal for an ‘information age’ city; Elliott Bay Books sold; students in Seattle, Oly walk out for safety; Microsoft sez its workers ‘don’t need’ unions.

Beloved bakery’s ex-home destroyed; other tribes don’t want federal recognition for the Duwamish; King County Homeless Authority wants more funding (and more funding sources); Sue Bird and two other Storm players have COVID.

Artist combines Japanese theatrical ‘war masks’ with vaginal symbolism; ‘PayUp’ bill weakened in City Council committee; students protest school shootings (and politicians’ non-reactions); SDOT erases a ‘guerrilla crosswalk.’

‘Black ballerina’ works for racial equity in the arts; more grade-school-shooting responses; Gov. Inslee and Lt. Gov. Heck say they have COVID; Amazon shareholders vote against worker-safety proposals, give CEO Jassy a huge bonus.

Fashionable roller skaters of south Seattle; local reactions to TX school shooting; city council OKs SPD hiring incentives; car crash throws driver off the I-5 bridge.

Amazon Labor Union’s head as a style icon?; Councilmember Tammy Morales and others share their abortion stories; Cleveland High students walk out to protest principal’s firing; a ‘Star Trek’ lesson about modern politics.