A local artist of Mexican Indigenous descent and her woodcut tributes to land and family; WA drug-decriminalization initiative drive begins; did Reps. Beutler and Newhouse try to stop the Jan. 6 coup attempt?; what if the ‘Roe’ repeal’s already been decided?

How KEXP pivoted to a wider range of music (and DJs); developers’ coalition opposes ‘social housing’ initiative; Amazon’s stock price plunges; last year’s heat wave turned some evergreen trees red.

UW library exhibit shows political radicals still existed in the ‘70s; Amazon loses $3.8 billion; study shows more than half of 911 calls don’t need police response; Federal Way will get to eat bags of Dick’s.

Redmond bans, then allows, the word ‘Palestine’ on a public art display; what Sawant’s victory doesn’t really mean; schools react to national social-media threats; poetry bookstore moving to Pioneer Square.

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.

New book recounts Boeing’s decline-n’-fall; new city attorney’s already making waves; two white dudes caught pretending to be Indigenous artists; Newport High School responds to accusations of abuse by punishing the accuser.

Trick photos of little cars in full-size places; keep-Sawant votes edge up; five people died after getting thrown out of low-income housing; one more high school can legally keep its Native-derived team name.

‘Recall Sawant’ early returns are as predicted (and as incomplete); Seattle’s population growth outpaced the ‘burbs in the 2010s; Amazon Web Services had a big outage; more homeless folk are ailing from a highly preventable condition.

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.

County Councilmember race-baits a (white) election rival; SPD prepares for firings of unvaxxed cops, while Inslee might impose a private-sector vax mandate; Melinda French Gates joins ‘Forbes 400’ on her own.

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.

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.

SU law prof’s book exhorts ‘mutual aid’ efforts (and anti-capitalism); one Mariner has COVID; a network news story’s ex-SPD ‘spokes-cop’ has a history of harassment; Amazon expands its ‘executive’ ranks for better diversity stats.

A local Indigenous writer on Coast Salish songs and the CHOP protests; teens can get the jab now (and should); a proposal to help prevent future mayoral text-message disappearances; a classic, closed downtown hotel and dive bar may get boutique-ified.

Ginormous solar-power farms ‘crop up’ in eastern WA; waiting for the ‘Phase 2’ relegation; very different May Day marches with different messages; Boeing wants its workforce to be more ‘pro-diversity’ if not actually more diverse.