UW Dance tries to diversify both participants and curriculum; giant Convention Center addition opens at last; pro-choice march passes by two big local Catholic institutions; a wish to bring NW passenger rail back to the ‘50s.

Modern urban mid-rise buildings & their discontents; judge sanctions city over Durkan’s missing texts; some Sounders FC fans don’t want Providence as the team’s new jersey sponsor; did Amazon lie to financial lenders about warehouse safety?

Local art exhibits for King Day weekend; Legislature to consider tax breaks for ‘news providers;’ Amazon NY warehouse union drive wins on appeal; the Kraken are on a winning streak, U District’s Kraken Bar not so much.

Local comix creators’ LGBTQ protagonists; is Twitter closing its Seattle office?; biotech ex-CEO won’t be charged with assaulting his then-wife; some year-end thoughts.

Charles Mudede on modern ghosts of Seattle past; a million chickens killed due to bird flu; an ‘officer involved’ death at King County Jail; Catholic Archdiocese spends big on a new archbishop’s residence.

Last Boeing 747 leaves assembly line; appeals court upholds most counts against Tim Eyman; First Baptist Church puts its land up for sale; is Amazon turning its back on customer experience?

Native American Heritage Month-themed art shows; still more city budget details; free home COVID tests to end; human programmers sue Microsoft over ‘self-writing’ AI coding project.

Second set of ballots doesn’t change city, state races; Amazon’s stock value drops $1 trillion since year’s start; Paul Allen’s private art collection auctioned for a total of $1.5 billion; Ingraham High School shooting suspect could face a murder charge.

Tacoma bar owners’ quest to restore the old, funny Rainier Beer ads; Seattle’s median income hits a new high (and why that’s bad); state official is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the COVID fight in WA; we just had our driest summer ever.

AI engineer creates a jazz band with a robot vocalist; selling Seattle rain to LA tourists; Starbucks wants feds to stop unionization votes; religious ‘crisis pregnancy’ centers offer medically questionable ‘abortion pill reversals.’

Four decades of Seattle microbrews (some less micro- than others); COVID lockdowns were good for area birds; Harborview’s overcrowded and won’t take most new patients; West Seattle bridge reopens on 9/18.

Artful narratives at Seattle Art Fair and Forest for the Trees; Rainier Ave. Lowe’s won’t become an Amazon warehouse; big hole in front of City Hall to stay a big hole for now; we’re having a heat wave.

Pix of travelers returning to local attractions; Amazon workers want company to stop donating to abortion foes; Amtrak will go to Vancouver BC again; what does July 4 mean in a time of internal threats against freedom?

Charles Johnson co-creates an Afro-Futurist-Buddhist graphic novel; Teatro ZinZanni’s post-COVID, post-Woodinville comeback; wildfire forces evacuations near Soap Lake; a pro-choice state constitutional amendment isn’t likely.

Locally-set novel about a tech mogul who uploads his consciousness; gruesome details at Charleena Lyles shooting inquest; WA pastor calls for LGBTQ mass murder; strike at 1st & Pike Starbucks.