An out trans woman becomes a high school homecoming queen; King County’s got its first POC (interim) sheriff; a 75-year-old Black woman (and police-accountability activist) is struck with a motor oil can in a racist street attack; what’s so negative about being told to be ‘positive’?

Fifty years since DB Cooper; two Seattle School Board members accused of staff bullying; what’s (still) in the city’s 2022 budget; ‘the truth behind the Great Resignation.”

The hidden history of a local jazz hall as it’s about to be commemorated; Seahawks, coach Pete Carroll hit a new nadir; SPD keeps full funding for unfilled jobs; Amazon, MS can bid again for a redrawn Pentagon cloud contract.

Ex-local author tries to tell the real story about early Seattle’s top madame (honored at the reopening Crocodile); Real Change founder’s new venture; City Council doesn’t cut ‘open’ SPD jobs; Vancouver’s ‘cut off’ from the rest of Canada.

Big show at SAM about a major photog from here (who did most of her work elsewhere); flooding cleanup’s underway in WA, while the (bigger) disaster continues in BC; is the ‘Recall Sawant’ campaign sexist, or just some of its loudest supporters?

Flooding and its impacts aren’t over in WA and BC: state Redistricting Commission fails to finish its job in time; Bruce Harrell’s big transition team; the connection between Bill Gates, nuclear power, and JCPenney.

Major drawbridge fails for two days; UW football coach Jimmy Lake axed; region get more major rain, flooding, etc.; Phinney Ridge pizza joint, attacked by anti-vaxxers, strikes back.

Neptune Theatre turns 100; 2022 Seattle budget battle’s already underway; community groups want investigations into abuses by Vancouver and Clark County law enforcement; Inslee removes a Legislative foe by picking him for Secretary of State.

A true-crime podcast depicts a Boeing engineer turned master bank robber; Seattle schools take an extra day off this week; KEXP boss retires after three decade; Re-bar to become a piano bar.

Temporary ‘COVID Remembrance Project’ now underway; UW football coach Jimmy Lake’s suspended for one game; 9 percent of Boeing’s US workers want a vax exemption; how has Amazon changed fiction?

A local kids’-TV legend dies at 101; Canadians can finally come here again; should hotel-based shelters stay open?; UW football coach caught shoving a player on the sidelines.

Short Run’s got a print catalog in lieu of an in-person comix/art fest; Lorena González concedes mayoral race to Bruce Harrell; Hanford workers urged to quit instead of getting vaxxed; Standard Time’s substandard status.

Further post-election blather; kids’ vaccines get underway; father of young man killed near 2020 CHOP protests files new lawsuit; could Carmen Best go on to lead the NYPD?

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.

Dead people you should know and where they are; an Election Day of unusual opportunity; COVID cases ‘plateau’ at a still-too-high level; a Snohomish high school’s Black, openly-trans homecoming queen.