Amazon Web Services VP quits in protest; ‘Phase 1’ of the state’s reopening will last a while; recall drive targets Snohomish County sheriff; no, elderberries won’t cure the COVID.

A local artisan repairs tiny intricate devices; getting ‘phased’ by Inslee’s new state guidelines; some of the angriest anti-quarantine trolls come from some of the worst-stricken counties; the lessons of the ‘Vietnam era’ as seen by Vietnamese people.

Comix artist depicts local folks’ current fears/hopes; economic grimness continues; Amazon’s sales shoot up (as do its expenses; what will talk radio ranters do without a May Day march to rail against?

“Ballard’s Opera Man” sings out nightly; most state restrictions will likely go on after next week; the areas where bus ridership’s dropped most/least; microbreweries could face macro-trouble.

Tatiana Gill’s comix tales of medication (Rx and other); (some) outdoor recreation to return in WA; doing real work in online office ‘environments’; we’ve hit the COVID ‘plateau’ but that’s not enough.

Artists send love to the Chinatown-International District; the ‘New Yorker’ thinks we had a better early COVID response than NYC; Boeing jilts Embraer at the merger altar; ‘the Seattle that existed before March is gone forever’.

A low-key Earth Day; how Snohomish County got a state-defying sheriff; Durkan pans payroll-tax plan while Councilmembers ponder how to spend its proceeds; Boeing’s reopening as a national ‘test case.’

More photo portraits of local folk surviving; Inslee says we still need mass testing; a new PBS documentary compares WA’s and DC’s COVID responses; Earth Day turns 50 as the air gets temporarily cleaner.

Local photog shows folks dealing with both shutdown and racism; UW biology prof warns against reopening too soon; West Seattle low bridge could also get shut; what will the arts look like after this?

Animations of hope projected on a wall; how that last Sounders match didn’t get canceled; alt-right rally goers in Olympia defy social distancing guidelines; the king of false COVID rumors (on the receiving end).

Fashionable face masks; no Pride or Solstice parades this June; Boeing factories to partly reopen; could the already-planned West Seattle light rail bridge also have car lanes?

A sawmill’s remains as seen from above; West Seattle Bridge may be a goner; Sen. Murray wants fed-backed mass testing; foes of the latest ‘Amazon Tax’ cite its potential effects on everybody except Amazon.

T-shirts to remember what’s not in your life; we’re apparently making great progress but can’t let up; Amazon fires workers who dissed its warehouse safety practices; Matt Shea claims the pandemic’s just a sham Marxist plot.

An anonymous street artist’s words from role-model women; a three-state pact (we’re by far the hardest-hit) will coordinate COVID responses; Inslee’s early releases may not make prisoners safer; a legal settlement ends the ‘Uber union’ push for now.

The Gods Themselves’ fashionable pop escapism brightens your weekend; Gov. Inslee ‘scolds’ Monroe prison protesters; new unemployment claims keep a-soarin’; no Capitol Hill Block Party this year.