More virus updates & reactions (I know); a mystery initiative campaign’s mystery donor; fishers are cute, carnivorous, and back in WA; can the city save small businesses (without giving ’em money)?

A lot more coronavirus updates and reactions; a strange rare creature that’s even more endangered by virus-panic; two more Bellevue College leaders fired after art-statement alteration; Seattle magazine’s got a new local owner.

The US’s first coronavirus deaths are right here (but don’t freak out or hoard stuff); feds say to keep the Snake River dams; Seattle cop fired for history of racist/sexist remarks; is drag bingo a felony offense?

AIDS Memorial Pathway art revealed; Bothell High School still closed by virus fear; Christopher Rufo blames Seattle for the rise of Sanders (and ‘socialism’); payroll-tax bill’s still alive and still without ‘pre-emption’ clause.

Bellevue College de-censors mural artists’ statement about white locals who liked the WWII internments; Inslee wants a Swedish labor pact now; does the city’s Navigation Team really get people off the streets?; neo-Nazis accused of harassing reporters and activists.

Amazon Go grocery’s biggest store yet opens on E. Pike; Kennedy High principal put on paid leave; two state House Dems will get primary challengers; 1 in 5 WA community college students are or have been homeless.

Local photog’s shots of national & local black ‘luminaries’; city’s LEAD program renewed after all; Expedia lays off hundreds after just moving their offices; we’re the US’s 9th most liberal city.

How Seattle’s bygone Queen of Neon was rediscovered; Re-bar at 30; Bumbershoot Lives! (in some form); another big ruling against Tim Eyman (whom Republicans still (heart symbol)).

Connecting the WWII internments’ lessons to today’s anti-immigrant hysteria; the downtown ex-Bon Marché’s final days; Caffe Vita’s new owner tries to heal past discord; local researchers try to invent a coronavirus vaccine.

A Dexter Ave. tower project indirectly honors a local TV legend; art collector/advocate Virginia Wright RIP; lessons from PBS’s Amazon exposé; payroll-tax bill dies in Legislature (but perhaps not fatally).

Protests want gay Catholic teachers rehired; more praise for Pike Place’s Oriental Mart; Durkan says she’s more of a true progressive than (without naming) Sawant; keeping eagles from dining at the landfill.

Bernie fills the Tacoma Dome; Bezos will give $ to fight climate change but not change Amazon’s climate footprint; a rally today will support a Catholic school’s gay ex-teachers; 712 people in WA are on coronavirus-related ‘supervision’.

Descendants of indigenous and Filipino berry pickers remember; Catholic high school claims two gay teachers ‘voluntarily’ quit (supporters say otherwise); virus panic hurts local businesses; more copper-wire thefts.

PBS ‘Frontline’ says Amazon’s reach is now ‘inescapable’; Sanders coming to a Tacoma rally; state Supreme Court OKs Sound Transit tax calculations; Boeing and engineers reach an early contract deal.

Meet the Liberty Bank Building’s mural artist; judge rules against most of anti-I-976 suit; Sawant’s ‘Tax Amazon’ plan now has specifics; imagining what won’t be in Sea-Tac’s new ‘Capitol Hill Food Court’.