A history of Black student movements at UW, WSU; Legislature OKs three conservative initiatives; King County launches new anti-fentanyl efforts; MAGA candidate in SW WA invokes racism to oppose a new I-5 bridge.

An LED and mylar “cherry tree” at the UW; Boeing wants to buy back Spirit AeroSystems; the SPD officer who killed Jaahnavi Kandula gets a traffic citation; Conor Byrne Pub set to close on 3/31.

Local TV special on a Black theater company’s struggle to stay alive; anti-rent-gouging bill dead in Olympia; FTC to fight big grocery merger plan; why Seattleites mourn Bartell Drugs.

Forty years of the band Girl Trouble; West Precinct protest demands ‘Justice for Jaahnavi;’ City Council to ‘reconsider’ living wages for gig workers after delivery companies slap on new fees; we’ve got major winter weather again.

Ginny Ruffler’s LED Aurora Borealis in Ballard; Legislature OKs more ‘micro apartments’ in more places; a proud ‘job hopper’ speaks up; Sounders and pre-season Mariners get started.

Fictional Seattles in film, TV, and games; Harrell’s ‘State of the City’ speech short on specifics; labor union supports big grocery merger; Amazon goes on the Dow Jones Industrials.

Charles Peterson’s Nirvana pix in new book; charter school partly funded by Russell Wilson may have to close; man beaten by Lakewood cops says he hadn’t spit at them; remembering a ‘vivid’ abstract painter.

A pop up African American museum in Columbia City this month; a jury award in the case of Children’s Hospital mold infections; kids at a Seattle daycare secretly got fed melatonin; Ristorante Machiavelli’s suddenly closing.

Video game teaches mega-earthquake survival skills; repeal of ‘lewd conduct’ ban in bars passes state Senate; Starbucks told to rehire labor-organizing barista; WSP officers thought woman with ‘bleeding brain’ was just drunk.

Standing relics of Seattle’s vice-laden past; national site likes Seattle & Spokane’s downtown efforts; ex-owner of Tula’s Jazz Club dies; fighting back against the ‘racial justice backlash.’

Local conceptual artist’s documentations of futility; Ezell’s Famous Chicken marks 40 years (without Ezell); Chateau Ste. Michelle plans big developments (but no more winemaking on site); could end of ‘lewd conduct’ rules help strippers?

Trying to solve civil-rights leader’s slaying 55 years later; Liquor & Cannabis Board pauses ‘lewd conduct’ enforcement; bill to rein in rent-gouging dies in Legislature; OR GOP lawmakers who walked out can’t run again.

Ijeoma Oluo’s new book on how to ‘Be a Revolution;’ Christopher Rufo’s links to ‘scientific racism’ journal; King County youth jail won’t close any time soon; Seahawks to have NFL’s youngest head coach.

Touring play’s exuberant ‘meta’ take on ‘Don Quixote;’ two School Board members resign; Councilmember Nelson opposes even-year elections; AI ‘deepfakes,’ abuse, and disinformation.

Music-scene outreach to supply the homeless; Tacoma man convicted at 18, out of prison at 43, could be sent back; ex-WA First Lady Nancy Evans dies; ‘three girls’ caught on cam vandalizing cars in Bellevue.