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.

‘Alice in Wonderland’ themed cocktail ‘experience’ coming to Seattle; Amazon’s openly playing Seattle against the suburbs; a major labor union may cut back on Sawant support; many police and sheriff’s employees are still un-vaxxed at the mandate deadline.

The history and possible future of WA’s oil refineries; A Day Without Facebook; some state workers will get a vax-mandate extension; SPD overseers find no official wrongdoing from last summer’s East Precinct abandonment.

Light rail expands to U District and Northgate at last; Mariners almost make the playoffs; harassment scandal roils women’s pro soccer; Anchorage’s mayor supports ‘vaccine mandates are like the Holocaust’ BS while its health-care system’s in collapse.

More light rail (at long last); Ms have a real playoff chance (at long last); UW study shows a lot more people are killed by cops nationally than are officially counted as such; Rep. Jayapal’s personal abortion story.

Early maps of growing towns (with ’embellishments’); lots of unpaid utility bills are about to come due; SAM now has the first Black female board head at any major (non-ethnic) US museum; celebrating the Ms’ amazing season.

Digital studio creates CGI still backdrops for drag and other performers; nonprofits’ troubles holding to diversity pledges; Real Change cofounder’s new ‘street paper’ venture; what it means when local candidates say they’re ‘abolitionist.’

More thoughts on 30 years of ‘Nevermind;’ a possible reason why Chukar Cherries likes a ‘Tax Amazon’ candidate; local COVID rates in slight decline (but don’t let up your guard); Durkan wants more money for SPD, not less.

Vaccination-themed mural installed at U District church; Kraken shines in preseason debut (too bad about Storm, Seahawks); car dealership tries to out-park an encampment; State Patrol has ‘failed to diversify over the decades.’

A concept for a ‘car-free Aurora Avenue;’ the state predicts our current bad COVID wave will continue; mayoral candidate Lorena Gonzalez reveals her big homelessness strategy; the Kraken is born.

Seattle’s four decades as the ‘Hollywood of video games;’ how locals have long rebelled against public health directives; cultural leaders push back against Durkan’s latest Office of Arts & Culture appointment; Amazon’s workforce diversity’s still mostly at the bottom ranks.

‘Black Lives Matter’ street mural installed at City Hall; UBC psychologist predicted the pandemic-reaction nonsense in 2019; crowded hospitals again delay non-COVID-related surgeries; Seahawks drop home opener in OT.

Heatwave-decimated snowpacks on Mt. Rainier; King County to require vax proof for many indoor and outdoor public spaces; waiting for the big rain/wind storm to show up; Inscape art studios endangered.

Seattle’s ‘biggest band’ (by number of members) has never all met in person; COVID hospitalizations ‘level off’ at a still-too-high mark; big construction-workers’ strike starts; Macklemore’s golf-themed apparel brand has a pop-up store.

Montlake highway ‘lid’ project to get bigger in nine years; WA hits another cruel COVID mark with over 7,000 deaths; is Rep. Jayapal a cruel boss or a victim of sexist double standards?; how ‘hesitancy’ can be manipulated, exploited.