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Peace Park statue goes missing; judge sez Seattle Archdiocese doesn’t have to reveal records of abusive priests; local reactions to campaign-rally shooting; climate crisis described as a great business opportunity.
Local editor’s ‘Literature of Japanese American Incarceration;’ stabbings, shooting inside a car being driven on I-5; Congressional candidate fires manager who’d criticized Israel online; ACLU slams conditions at Tacoma’s for-profit ICE jail.
We’re still a scary place in video games; ex-SPD chief Diaz accused of ‘dictatorship;’ WA’s first strip club with booze in decades is now open; 50 years of (and three different sets of) Seattle Sounders.
Immigrant advocates watch ICE deportation flights from afar; King County sues Burien over camping ban; Sodo queer disco to become Seattle’s first (straight) strip club with booze; what it costs to ‘live comfortably’ here.
Video game teaches mega-earthquake survival skills; repeal of ‘lewd conduct’ ban in bars passes state Senate; Starbucks told to rehire labor-organizing barista; WSP officers thought woman with ‘bleeding brain’ was just drunk.
Standing relics of Seattle’s vice-laden past; national site likes Seattle & Spokane’s downtown efforts; ex-owner of Tula’s Jazz Club dies; fighting back against the ‘racial justice backlash.’
Local conceptual artist’s documentations of futility; Ezell’s Famous Chicken marks 40 years (without Ezell); Chateau Ste. Michelle plans big developments (but no more winemaking on site); could end of ‘lewd conduct’ rules help strippers?
Some new Windows PCs will have AI access on the keyboard; housing prices keep soaring; UW to redevelop southwest campus for research and biotech; Google AI’s running three Seattle street lights in a test program.
The Kraken and a player’s wife don’t like explicit online sex-talk about the player; few surprises (and few incumbents) in first primary-election returns; Sawant’s rent-control bill fails; WA’s suing to stop ID’s ‘abortion travel ban.’
Fremont Solstice, once ‘fringe,’ now a familiar comfort in an age of change; Juneteenth’s local past and present; big cutbacks at Seattle Pacific U.; Amazon-contractor drivers strike in Calif.
Local books cover neon signs, rain, and feminist history; City Council to vote on Neo-War on Drugs bill; ‘swept’ Burien encampment moves locations, will be re-‘swept;’ the death of a businessman and onetime rock promoter.
What should the new owner do with the ex-Lusty Lady building?; Starbucks boss Howard Schultz retires (again); Amazon announced 9,000 more worldwide layoffs; Ballard woman dies in a shootout during an eviction.
Previewing a back-to-basics Bumbershoot festival; Harrell’s ‘State of the City’ speech mostly generalities; strippers organize for steady pay and better conditions; why a CEO wasn’t charged in a domestic-violence case.
Metro celebrates 50 years, as business promoters suggest revamping downtown bus routes; another City Councilmember’s quitting this year; do WA folk really have higher than average sexual ‘body counts’?
Margarethe Cammermeyer’s story retold to mark 10 years of marriage equality; Ed Troyer trial testimony gets ‘absurd;’ Amazon layoff levels could grow; UW’s star quarterback will be back.