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The costliest painting ever sold comes to SAM; WA Legislature sprints to the finish; Chris Hansen keeps buying Sodo land; Seattle World’s Fair’s PR genius dies.
Renowned local author accused of harassment; Inslee drives his point in DC; ICE retaliation evidence; Scoop Jackson’s widow dies.
An icy valentine; UN human-rights watchers speak for Maru Mora-Villalpando; a legacy gay ‘steam room’ club’s for sale (again); the cost of faulty computer systems.
Amazon Spheres open on a rainforest-esque day; T-Mobile vows to go all “renewable”; oil-by-train port trashed; whatever happened to hemp?
Last Friday, I suggested the Women’s March 2.0 might not be as humungous as it was last year.
I was wrong.
Another estimated 100,000 women, children, and men strode through downtown Seattle, reasserting their opposition to the hyper-reactionary DC regime and demanding a better future.
What’s next: continuing to resist and fight back, in measures large and small. The biggest such moment will be at the midterm elections, a little more than nine months from now.
And you already know what miracles women can create within THAT timeframe.
The year’s final MISCmedia MAIL explores a city getting ever younger; an addition to the Charleena Lyles lawsuit; the end of Seattle’s crooked-est alley; and Sherman Alexie exhorting against hate.
Our pre-Xmas week begins with the Santa Con bar crawl; why you should admire the Seahawks even after that last game; a fish farm losing its lease; and how Pierce Co. prosecutor Mark Lindquist could be re-elected, disbarred, or both.
In your big weekend letter: The campaign for a Seattle NHL team commences; the real cost of virtual currency; non-progress in hotel-worker safety; another major Seattle institution approaches its date of death.
For your Thursday edification: Sung and unsung heroines of history; local sports legend sued for harassment; original 13 Coins’ last day; new Viaduct demolition schedule.
In a big local news day, Coliseum 3.0 plan OK’d; police chief and City Light CEO quit; parents address the ‘PTA gap’ between local schools; Sounders fans don’t like (unofficial) Sounders beer.
For your T-Day Eve perusal: ‘Other’ difficult holiday talk-topics; the local role in vinyl records’ comeback; searching for opioid-crisis solutions; plans for a Seattle AIDS memorial.
In your midweek missive: Starbucks’ non-recyclable packaging protested by ‘Cup Monster’; cancer cure in 8 years?; UW Republicans’ fake “Antifa” posters; it’s larch-foliage season!
In our midweek missive: Republicans just won’t stop trying to kill affordable health care (and thus several million Americans); a local social-justice activist vs. useless “purity” obsessions; tentative victories in eco-lawsuits; the end of the CD’s indie supermarket; and helping the homeless feel “at home,” if just for a moment.
At 11 a.m., Ed Murray was about to hold a public announcement at KeyArena. A little more than two hours later, he sent word he was resigning. We’ve got glimpses of the whirlwind from assorted angles in today’s extra-long e-missive. We’ve also got Nordstrom’s latest plan to stay un-acquired; Durkan and Moon’s very different housing-crisis solutions; and potential new ways to make a border run.
Let us recall another Seattle progressive triumph, in an age of another not-all-there Republican president. It’s the late John Stamets’ 1987 pix of the restored Pike Place Market, now on display again. Among our other topics this day: wildfires rage in Grant County; concrete-truck drivers go on strike; a walking trail’s set to reopen; and more local folk have more reaction to the ongoing sociopolitical meltdown.