An ‘excessive heat watch’ is here; the state eviction moratorium’s renewed with changes; Uber to pay $3.4 million in unpaid sick leave and back pay; an uptick in air travel means an uptick in pollution at Sea-Tac.

A big picture book of local storefront murals; a major heat wave’s still on the way; an early state reopening’s unlikely; a longtime social worker’s past and present battles.

Online educational TV show for kids of color wins national awards; Black UW Police officers claim racist abuse; a major city landmark reopens at last; Microsoft hits $2 trillion in total stock valuation.

Another big historic U District church is razed; ‘critical race theory’ isn’t what the far right says it is; south King County’s vax rate still lags; online petitions ask Jeff Bezos to go into space and stay there.

The meaning(s) of Juneteenth; Portland wants our tourist $ (and a more positive image); Durkan extends eviction moratorium; has the Gates Foundation’s money/influence hurt global vaccination drives?

Ballard’s new marine-themed fence mural; a UW psychology prof predicts post-pandemic hookups; Portland’s protest-response cops resign en masse; Megan Rapinoe will help Victoria’s Secret ‘rebrand’ itself.

Local biopic on ‘Claymation’ maker Will Vinton; frustration at the ‘two-yard line’ for reopening WA; Durkan blames protesters for leading her to quit; Showbox won’t reopen this weekend after all.

The new novelty of real museum-going; King County goes maskless on 6/29; from whence Seattle’s primary-campaign money is coming; remembering Vancouver’s 2011 hockey riot.

Really big container cranes show up; a mayoral candidate’s past DC lobbying work could haunt him; restaurant sexual-misconduct claims could widen to more places; what the city-charter amendment campaign won’t answer.

Lumen Field vax site closes; the annual prediction of a center-right ‘backlash’ in Seattle politics; major local chef accused of sexual misconduct; remembering a film nut (in a town of film nuts).

A big new online encyclopedia of NW hiphop; the Puyallup Fair’s on for this year; several building unions back the Sawant recall drive; (faint) praise for (some) street chaos.

Jazz Alley, other live-music spots reopening; city reaches 70 percent fully vaxxed; new downtown PCC grocery won’t open until next spring; hunger strike closes Casa Latina’s job center.

Will Central Disrict’s library ‘Soul Pole’ come back?; 100,000 drivers’ licenses to be restored; Idaho’s battle between the far-right and the farther-right; KingCo’s small-business contracts ‘overwhelmingly’ go to white-owned companies.

Cafe Racer’s fourth opening will be at a second site; federal, state vaccination stats differ; could the Canadian border finally, partly, reopen?; a double-anniversary and new-project announcement.

Longtime TV-radio combo divorcing; 40 years since AIDS pandemic’s start; Neptune Theatre’s reopening date; Seattle nears 70 percent fully vaxxed.