Pix of travelers returning to local attractions; Amazon workers want company to stop donating to abortion foes; Amtrak will go to Vancouver BC again; what does July 4 mean in a time of internal threats against freedom?

SCOTUS ‘Roe’ decision sparks large protests here and elsewhere, affects the mood at the returning Pride parade, draws many responses from politicians and corporations; Mariners, Angels engage in an old-fashioned baseball brawl.

Large, privately owned ‘FoodArt Collection’ goes up at auction; waiting on ‘Roe’ decision; two ex-Seattle Prep students sue claiming sexual abuse; it’s gonna get hot again.

Locally-set novel about a tech mogul who uploads his consciousness; gruesome details at Charleena Lyles shooting inquest; WA pastor calls for LGBTQ mass murder; strike at 1st & Pike Starbucks. 

Vito’s is closed indefinitely after a massive apt. fire upstairs; SPU grads give its prez Pride flags at commencement; more on the attempted Patriot Front violence in Idaho; timber baron George Weyerhaeuser RIP.

Noting seven years of these e-missives (and many more years of yrs. truly); hospital leaders say to put your masks back on; Nooksack ‘disenrollment’ case goes to state Supreme Court; Snohomish Co. sheriff guts life-saving outreach teams.

Artist Joey Veltkamp’s life-affirming quilts; Harrell’s homelessness plan is, unsurprisingly, big on data; city council passes minimum wage for app workers; local home prices rise 5.6% in just one month.

Beloved bakery’s ex-home destroyed; other tribes don’t want federal recognition for the Duwamish; King County Homeless Authority wants more funding (and more funding sources); Sue Bird and two other Storm players have COVID.

Artist combines Japanese theatrical ‘war masks’ with vaginal symbolism; ‘PayUp’ bill weakened in City Council committee; students protest school shootings (and politicians’ non-reactions); SDOT erases a ‘guerrilla crosswalk.’

Fashionable roller skaters of south Seattle; local reactions to TX school shooting; city council OKs SPD hiring incentives; car crash throws driver off the I-5 bridge.

Amazon Labor Union’s head as a style icon?; Councilmember Tammy Morales and others share their abortion stories; Cleveland High students walk out to protest principal’s firing; a ‘Star Trek’ lesson about modern politics.

Memories of Mount St. Helens and the future KEXP; suicides and unknowns at the King County Jail; was the China 737 crash deliberate?; local tech employees are still mostly ‘bros.’

Ex-Lava Lounge building nears its doom; thousands of gas-station sites need cleaning up; ex-cop who longed for the old days of lynchings gets his job back; more than 60 sexual-abuse claims at the ICE jail in Tacoma.

Seattle’s once-popular downtown mall may become office space; thousands attend pro-Roe rally/march; why new COVID variants are so successful; drive for equity in school fundraisers.

Tulalip historian/activist on tribal boarding schools’ somber legacy; former ‘pro-choice Republican’ Reagan Dunn votes against County Council’s ‘Roe’ resolution; a COVID-themed musical; what can pro-housing activists learn from Weird Al?