Japanese American artists’ visions of past struggles; judge rejects suit by 737 MAX crash victims’ families; three teens’ destructive car chase; why we should look at struggles in other cities (and not just THAT one other city).

A prominent public art installation’s now half-disappeared; Colorado judge disses Starbucks’ labor policies; bill in Olympia would let strip clubs sell booze; report claims Russell Wilson’s charity gives out less than half its income.

Love expressed for Taco Time NW, while Beth’s Cafe reopens at last; Tammy Morales wants to stay on the City Council (unlike four colleagues); is Amazon trying to de-emphasize direct online sales?

Local art exhibits for King Day weekend; Legislature to consider tax breaks for ‘news providers;’ Amazon NY warehouse union drive wins on appeal; the Kraken are on a winning streak, U District’s Kraken Bar not so much.

Papercut artist Nikki McClure’s ‘slices’ of real life; Seattle Center picked to run new waterfront park; more area tech layoffs; Starbucks orders office workers back.

Seattle Schools suing social-media giants for aggravating youth mental-health crisis; true-crime podcast producers prod SPD into pursuing serial-rape allegations; Legislature starts, all in-person for the first time since you-know-when; what if Amazon hadn’t landed in Seattle?

The innies and outies for a prime-number year.

Video games, fandom, etc. described as building identity and community; extreme-weather aftermath continues; WA greenhouse-gas emissions reach a 12-year high; new King County office to promote ‘the creative economy.’

Whim W’Him dance company takes over a Queen Anne church building; why ‘liberal’ (or ’techie’) city governments can’t house the homeless; lots of car, car/pedestrian collisions; the Starbucks union drive’s first year.

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.

MOHAI marks a decade at South Lake Union amid a vastly-changing city; budget bill passes, but city will still need to find more revenue; Everett Herald cuts back on print editions; someone stole the stuffed cougar from Vito’s.

Native American Heritage Month-themed art shows; still more city budget details; free home COVID tests to end; human programmers sue Microsoft over ‘self-writing’ AI coding project.

Fantagraphics marks 40 years of ‘Love & Rockets;’ a local memorial to traffic deaths had to update its numbers; Rep. Jayapal doesn’t like the big supermarket-merger plan; Starbucks closing another unionized store, again supposedly over ‘safety concerns.’

Starbucks workers strike on ‘Red Cup Day;’ how GOP pollsters exaggerated Tiffany Smiley’s chances; Native American cafe to open in Pioneer Square; state agencies prep for the possible end of Twitter.

Sir Mix-A-Lot honored for his work helping local musicians during the shutdowns; over 300,000 folks lose power to weekend windstorms; city budget projections keep getting worse; ‘the threat to democracy is alive and well in WA state.’