Garfield High School community responds to Thursday’s shooting; astronaut and ‘Earthrise’ photog William Anders dies in San Juans plane crash; WA wildfire season now underway; I’ve got a new project to announce.

Two new giant murals near the waterfront; Garfield student fatally shot while ‘trying to break up a fight;’ SPD-beating video goes viral; I’ve got a big to-do this Saturday.

Messages told in U District’s homey ‘Museum of Unity;’ GOP initiatives’ backers don’t want their financial impacts mentioned on ballots; two local theaters talk of merging; Costco reportedly to stop regularly selling books.

‘Red Chador’ artist expresses Muslim-female ‘joy;’ onetime affordable-apartment building burns; Kent refugee encampment allowed to stay put for now; recalling Seattle’s ‘role in school re-segergation.’

Local films tackle visibility and forgiveness; ‘Juneuay’ weather wreaks havoc; Councilmember Saka wants a bigger transportation levy; Poulsbo Pride street banners trashed, repaired, re-installed.

One Seattleite’s favorite ‘obscure’ monuments; Dave Reichert ‘jokes about shooting reporters;’ out-of-state abortions soar in WA; car crashes into an ambulance treating the victim of a previous crash.

50th Pride Month art show; interim SPD chief’s past words about ‘police culture;’ Trading Musician store closes while a rare-book store almost opens; oh, and there was some courtroom news item from NYC.

SPD chief Diaz resigns, ex-sheriff Rahr in for now; parents really don’t like threatened school closures; Starbucks’ staffing algorithm leaves stores short-handed; when politicians care only about the rich.

Old Tacoma anarchist mag unearthed; City Council delays votes on gig-worker wages, defunding Equitable Development Initiative; Melinda French Gates vows $1 billion to help women and families; T-Mobile buys another rival.

Wing Luke Museum staffers walk out over exhibit’s alleged Zionist bias; tech CEOs want more housing in Comp Plan; budget crises at school districts across the state; Bill Walton dies as Pac-12 ends.

The healing power of ‘erotic dance;’ Sound Transit keeps SLU station site as planned; WA joins feds in suing Ticketmaster/Live Nation; state parental-rights law bashed as potentially causing ‘forced outing’ of teens.

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei to get a SAM exhibit; 40 years of the Young Fresh Fellows; Pacific Place sold at a big discount; SPD had ‘policy’ to harass anti-police protesters.

Wing Luke exhibit on communities coming together against racism; City Council OKs easing SPD hiring requirements; Cupcake Royale to ‘eventually’ close all its stores; library in MAGA Idaho goes adults-only.

Pro-Palestinian camp at UW dismantled; another lawsuit claims racial and gender discrimination at SPD; Burien could kill tiny-house village project it previously OK’d; Seattle hits a population milestone.

Mariners’ ‘Hot Dogs from Heaven’ stunt a hit; UW Quad protest tents set to go away today; ‘targeted upzone’ planned for a swath of the industrial district; are local rents going up or down? (depends on who you ask).