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Mayor Durkan and Police Chief Best stop curfews, promise to listen to protesters; city won’t seek to end federal police oversight; a black Tacoma man was fatally choked by police in March; King County seeks a modified “modified phase 1.’
A local collage artist brings the present to the past; WA’s ‘patient zero’ probably wasn’t; Amazon holds its first virtual shareholder meeting; a maker of high-tech home-brew kits goes flat.
Posters to inspire and instruct in this moment; a closed-but-timely museum show; the latest excuse for predicting emptied-out cities; King County wants to see a face mask on you.
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.’
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).
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.
Locally made candles are made to stay home with; the state announces more small-biz aid; local Congresspeople beg Boeing to accept federal help; “thoughts on the coronavirus and cities.”
An art teacher/cartoonist ponders the immediate unknown; aid programs for workers and artists get underway; Boeing wants big federal bucks; it’s (not) a golden time for introverts.
All public events in a three-county area are either banned or heavily restricted, depending on size; lots more school districts are closing; Joe Biden takes the presidential-primary lead; Boeing’s year-to-date orders are in minus figures.
The state may ban all 250-or-more local public gatherings; there’s no WA presidential primary winner yet; Boeing workers split on latest contract offer; at least it’s a great time to take a quiet urban bike ride.
Lots of songs to wash hands by; another plethora of local COVID updates & responses; Congress members accuse Boeing of promoting a ‘culture of concealment’; what the internment-memorial mural incident tells about modern Bellevue.
1918 ‘Spanish’ flu pandemic compared to now; many more COVID reactions and 1 more death; state may ask developers to promise ‘net environmental gain;’ MOHAI gets Seattle’s most famous accordion.
Protests want gay Catholic teachers rehired; more praise for Pike Place’s Oriental Mart; Durkan says she’s more of a true progressive than (without naming) Sawant; keeping eagles from dining at the landfill.
Bernie fills the Tacoma Dome; Bezos will give $ to fight climate change but not change Amazon’s climate footprint; a rally today will support a Catholic school’s gay ex-teachers; 712 people in WA are on coronavirus-related ‘supervision’.
PBS ‘Frontline’ says Amazon’s reach is now ‘inescapable’; Sanders coming to a Tacoma rally; state Supreme Court OKs Sound Transit tax calculations; Boeing and engineers reach an early contract deal.
