Tom Dyer’s 40-song ode to Oly; marking 10 years since the same-sex wedding spectacular at City Hall; window shot at Renton drag-queen story hour site; FTC sues to stop Microsoft from taking over Activision Blizzard.

Last Boeing 747 leaves assembly line; appeals court upholds most counts against Tim Eyman; First Baptist Church puts its land up for sale; is Amazon turning its back on customer experience?

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.

A disconnected landline phone for ‘calling’ long-gone loved ones; film programmer Ruth Hayler RIP; Everett shooting victim gets away by vehicle but not very far; restricting police hi-speed chases saves bystanders’ lives.

Psychiatric nurse helps the homeless, and seeks help for her own burnout; more about the almost-final city budget plan; injury pauses Sunny Day Real Estate’s reunion tour; Cafe Nordo’s last act (for now).

‘Ted Lasso’ cheers on US soccer stars; alleged Ingraham shooter, 14, could be tried as an adult; City Council to debate a shrunken budget proposal; how Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won against all odds.

What those ‘HOMELESSNESS’ billboards are really about; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wins in 3rd Congressional District; nobody seems to want a big new airport except the planners and bureaucrats; Ingraham students staging citywide, anti-gun-violence walkout today.

Aquarium expansion, Market-to-waterfront walkway now under construction; city sues opioid makers’ PR firm; Tacoma’s guaranteed-income program’s a temporary success; can progressives learn to at least talk persuasively to each other?

The UW’s big new greenhouse; post-‘emergency’ COVID era here begins on the Day of the Dead; Lavender Country singer (a lifelong gay activist) dies at 78; Tiffany Smiley’s debate prevarications.

MOHAI’s big AI exhibit; friends, neighbors mourn Central District community advocate fatally shot near his business; El Corazon building (again) threatened by redevelopment; waiting for the cleansing rains to arrive at last.

Another concept for ‘reviving’ Third Ave.; Mariners drag it out to the bitter (elongated) end; grocery clerks’ union opposes Kroger/Albertsons merger; King County scraps expanded-shelter plan in SoDo.

Local doc profiles railway tycoon James Hill; labor judge slams Starbucks’ union busting; Nazi-sympathetic blogger had short-lived job with state GOP; security guard reportedly assaults handcuffed woman.

A conversation confab with human ‘books;’ the entire ‘aPodments’ chain’s for sale; Facebook found guilty of 822 campaign-finance violations; the Mariners’ postseason return stars today at last.

Local artist depicts ‘self expression/identity;’ Sen. Murray goes where Tiffany Smiley fears to tread (Capitol Hill); what Amazon may want in the health-care biz; ‘Seattle Times’ shrinkage watch.

The Mariners finally make the playoffs (but the Sounders don’t); new report calls for razing Snake River dams to save salmon; Tiffany Smiley cries for, then disses, Starbucks; remembering a prolific fiction writer and alt-wellness advocate.