‘SNL’ skit takes on race and Amazon Go; two years since the Night the Bars Closed; concrete drivers conditionally return to work; report says SPD must ‘regain trust with community’ after protest over-reactions.

Statue of noted local artist appears near one of his own works; how mask-off day went (and where masks must stay on); what the Legislature did, didn’t do; new Bumbershoot festival producers may be looking for a year-round performance space.

Hale’s Brewpub and Palladium to close; Legislative session ends with some big stuff done, some undone; there will be a baseball season after all; state mask mandate ends as Daylight Saving Time begins.

New Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic site opens amid continuing claims of systemic racism; Seattle schools to end mask mandates; state Legislature nears a budget deal; City Hall encampment finally swept.

Marchers in Seattle demand a Ukraine no-fly zone; 3rd & Pine ‘cleaned up’ (sort-of, for a time); UW Israeli Studies program loses a big donor; will bill to ‘reform police reforms’ really just water them down?

Seattle Aquarium’s new local oddities; Amazon to close its physical bookstores; could Seattle home prices be due for a ‘correction’?; why the homelessness crisis is so damn complicated.

David Guterson novelizes a child’s ‘homicide by abuse;’ what ‘cleaning up’ 3rd Ave. will and won’t do; rural judge rules against WA capital gains tax; the ‘full Amazon-ification of Whole Foods.’

Art exhibit asks folk to imagine Black futures; WA’s masks-off day will now be nine days sooner; union drive starts at another local coffee chain; Microsoft fights anti-Ukraine ‘cyberattacks,’ while keeping quiet about its own Russian business ties.

More local protests, vigils, reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; King Co. will end its mask mandate when the state does; another fatal shooting on Third Ave.; legislature’s gas-export tax proposal may be dropped.

Hanford teen’s Hanford documentary; local Ukraine invasion reactions; state sues Swedish/Providence facilities over lack of ‘charity care;’ the price of a single parking space in Seattle.

Netflix doc seeks 737 MAX answers in Boeing’s altered corporate culture; two high-profile downtown sweeps, two different responses; one dead as anti-racist protesters shot in Portland; could U Village become the Last Mall Standing?

Artist’s elaborate cutouts remember the 80th anniversary of the WWII internments; Washington (but not necessarily King Co.) to end indoor mask mandate on the equinox; can $10 million in corporate cash solve homelessness (at least downtown)?; Amazon union-busters threaten to slash wages.

Catholic order to sell big, undeveloped Laurelhurst land tract; King County indoor-spaces vax mandate to end; Sounders FC’s practice facility to take over some ex-Boeing land; Legislative workers stage a walkout over working conditions.

A retired Bellevue arts docent’s own ‘Barbieville;’ zoning reform is among the bills dead in the Legislature; WA’s COVID ‘R number’ has gone way down; Harrell’s ‘State of the City’ speech repeats big, vague promises.

A Seattle civil-rights lawyer’s new documentary; a Kent school library can keep its LGBTQ books; Bellevue’s housing is now costlier than Manhattan’s; a Cascade volcano’s at a ‘very high risk’ of erupting.