Remembering a local icon of cartooning and TV; why one Black activist won’t back Bruce Harrell for mayor; court upholds state ban on forced ‘conversion therapy’ against gays; Pacific Galleries antique mall might be saved.

Mt. Rainier’s a lot less snowy and icy these days; state auditor’s office sez city’s ‘Black Brilliance Project’ grants were barely within the law; Portland police allowed far-right rally members to mostly just do their thing; 15 writers in search of Utopia.

The new ‘Skid Road’ book’s parallels to the older one; more institutions impose vaccine requirements; controversial PCC president quits; city attorney Pete Holmes is out of the general-election race.

What we know (and don’t know) after the primary election’s first ‘ballot drop’; local COVID conditions return to ‘substantial transmission’ level; rain’s brief return may re-return; an old (but fake) totem pole is taken down at a Tacoma park.

Big touring exhibit of African-American art and history comes to Tacoma; state, federal eviction moratoria end, while COVID cases and hospitalizations explode anew; huge Oregon wildfire now mostly contained.

Julia’s on Broadway drag cast goes on strike; WA reaches another grim COVID milestone; attorneys claim Children’s Hospital operating-room mold has had 100 victims; a suspect’s arrested in the 2020 slaying near the CHOP protest zone.

Ste. Michelle wines sold to a private-equity firm; Kshama Sawant would rather face a recall vote in November than in a primary; who gave the word to shut the East Precinct last year; Hoquiam police post ‘jokes’ about a troubled man who jumped from a bridge.

Another big historic U District church is razed; ‘critical race theory’ isn’t what the far right says it is; south King County’s vax rate still lags; online petitions ask Jeff Bezos to go into space and stay there.

The meaning(s) of Juneteenth; Portland wants our tourist $ (and a more positive image); Durkan extends eviction moratorium; has the Gates Foundation’s money/influence hurt global vaccination drives?

Local biopic on ‘Claymation’ maker Will Vinton; frustration at the ‘two-yard line’ for reopening WA; Durkan blames protesters for leading her to quit; Showbox won’t reopen this weekend after all.

Jazz Alley, other live-music spots reopening; city reaches 70 percent fully vaxxed; new downtown PCC grocery won’t open until next spring; hunger strike closes Casa Latina’s job center.

A children’s book explains abortion; democracy vouchers’ potential impact in this mayoral race; the state reopening countdown hits the 30-day mark; it’s the wrong time for so many state ferries to be broken.

Fun, food-esque street art in Maynard Alley; massive Alki Beach party broken up; officers charged in Manny Ellis’ death plead not guilty; mass grave found at a former BC boarding school for Indigenous children.

Art consortium builds a blocky Seattle cityscape in Minecraft; three Tacoma officers charged in Manny Ellis’ killing; racism charges against Seattle Office of Arts & Culture by an ex-administrator; MacKenzie Scott tries to give away big money.

Tacoma park art has a giant saw and a ‘ghost log’; Alaska cruises coming back; ex-SPD Chief Best’s hints about who ordered the East Precinct emptied last June; Kshama Sawant and Jean Godden both disdain the ‘Compassion Seattle’ charter-amendment campaign.