A local Japanese American painter’s posthumous comeback; anti-vax state Senator dies of COVID; Seahawks, Kraken games postponed; Boeing sells its Longacres office complex for ‘transit oriented development.’

Dina Martina signs with Sub Pop; OL Reign women’s soccer moves back to Seattle; Inslee wants $812 million for state housing programs; Blake Island dinner tours suspended for all of 2022.

There’s a new local-arts mag (on paper!); some retail storefronts are going delivery-only; one year of COVID vax shots in WA; Boeing sells two Renton office buildings cheap.

The ‘revered and reviled saxophonist’ gets an HBO doc; Space Needle fireworks will be back (sort-of); full hospitals can’t send folks to full nursing homes; Bruce Harrell’s niece will be his chief aide.

Sawant apparently survives another ouster attempt; one NY state Starbucks store votes pro-union; new owners save a theater and a music club; UW men’s basketball loses another game to COVID issues.

‘Internet Ends’—or will it?; Comic Con returns (even with at least some stuff about comics!); Sawant recall backers spending big; COVID protocols cancel UW basketball game.

More floods attack the hard-hit BC interior; the Crocodile has its third grand opening; a labor group claims Amazon under-reports worker COVID cases; the city settles with Charleena Lyles’ family for $3.5 million.

Can in-person holiday shopping rebound?; local experts discuss the ‘omicron’ COVID variant; Northwest WA gets more rain, floods, landslides, etc.; Apple Cup football failure is followed by light-rail failure.

Indigenous contemporary art to view this T-Day weekend, highlighting a list of mostly cultural items left over from recent newsletter issues.

The hidden history of a local jazz hall as it’s about to be commemorated; Seahawks, coach Pete Carroll hit a new nadir; SPD keeps full funding for unfilled jobs; Amazon, MS can bid again for a redrawn Pentagon cloud contract.

Ex-local author tries to tell the real story about early Seattle’s top madame (honored at the reopening Crocodile); Real Change founder’s new venture; City Council doesn’t cut ‘open’ SPD jobs; Vancouver’s ‘cut off’ from the rest of Canada.

Neptune Theatre turns 100; 2022 Seattle budget battle’s already underway; community groups want investigations into abuses by Vancouver and Clark County law enforcement; Inslee removes a Legislative foe by picking him for Secretary of State.

A true-crime podcast depicts a Boeing engineer turned master bank robber; Seattle schools take an extra day off this week; KEXP boss retires after three decade; Re-bar to become a piano bar.

The first ‘ballot drop’ is on the side of corporate centrists (and one genuine right-winger); vax for kids coming soon; UW scientists on the climate crisis; Zillow finds a way to lose big money in ‘flipping’ houses.

‘Ghost kitchen’ and other costume ideas; state eviction moratorium’s end nears again; last-minute big bucks pour into local elections; Amazon’s quarterly profits fall by almost half.