Seattle writer pens a comic-book anti-heroine’s Seattle adventures; Amazon Prime may offer free cell service; a local tech co. creates a ‘synthetic NPR host;’ it turns out WA folks are just fine with taxing the 1 percent.

Art installation envisions a ‘City of the Future;’ an ex-military gay man, still with a ‘criminal record,’ to speak at a local Pride concert, Hanford cleanup gets even more complicated; my favorite evil-computer movie.

Several angles on Aurora Avenue (past, present, future); hundreds walk out of Amazon offices; Burien encampment sweep looms despite county disapproval; more allegations against ex-state equity office head Karen A. Johnson.

The history of WA’s own Stonehenge; ex-golf course to become an aquatic habitat; SPD borrowed ‘dangerous and toxic’ weapons during 2020 protests; how many Amazon office workers will walk off today?

Tribal canoes return to Lummi Island; ferry riders stuck at the docks in the San Juans; why Seattle schools are re-segregated; why modern politics is like being stuck in traffic.

Indigenous artist paints an Alaska Airlines plane; Seattle population’s growing again; a new federal program hopes to help solve homelessness here and in five other places; happy (day after) Mt. St. Helens Day.

Seahawks use AI art prompts to make promo imagery; doctors fleeing post-Roe Idaho; Kraken in another playoff Game 7; what should be the CInerama’s new name?

SIFF to reopen (and rename) the Cinerama; Metro’s dropping more routes; we just had a really bad flu season; gay men can donate blood again.

SIFF short spoofs Microsoft’s biggest PR bash; Pagliacci to start pizza-delivery drones; who’s trolling a woman with fake ‘$500 reward’ key chains?; it’s ‘end of COVID emergency’ day.

Club-night promoters try for ‘safer space’ policy; Chinatown-Intl. District declared ‘endangered;’ Weyerhaeuser HQ workers told to come back on-site; what might be behind the big supermarket-takeover plan.

UW researchers to earthquake-test a mass timber high rise; Seattle has more very-rich folk these days; City Council won’t prevent new housing in the name of saving trees; it’ll get mighty hot here.

Archie McPhee marks 40 years of rubber chickens; West Seattle Bridge off ramp closed with a big hole; Seattle schools start planning for big budget cuts; a judge could close an entire Alaska salmon fishery to help orcas.

Inslee won’t run for gov again; SPL lets right wing ex-actor hold ‘anti-drag-queen-story-time’ event; Washington Middle School cuts tech training and jazz band; national media find Kraken fans as surprising as the team.

Kent church parking lot turned into community garden; street clock moving crew damages roof of Westlake transit station; it’s back-to-the-office day at Amazon; more horrid shootings.

Wa Na Wari gallery’s building listed for sale; state, cities, and counties scramble to potentially make up for Legislature’s drug-bill failure; man tries to hijack a Bremerton ferry because ‘revolution;’ it’s ‘Bed Bath and Bye Bye.’