State high court nixes Eyman’s latest kill-transit initiative; local man gets COVID twice; Portland pastor/NAACP head accused of repeated sexual/physical abuse; ‘Uncle Ike’ doesn’t like his face on urinal cakes.

Bartell Drugs to be sold off; Elephant Car Wash on Denny to be razed; public school enrollment (especially kindergarten) is down statewide; city Human Rights Commission wants Mayor Durkan to resign or be removed.

A local dancer’s tale of depression, drink, and survival; COVID outbreak at Salish Lodge; Durkan to disband Navigation Team after all; Inslee threatens Boeing’s tax breaks if it moves 787 work out of Everett.

A local artist’s constructions depict life in our chaotic times; seeking the truth among online seas of lies; a new local documentary explores social costs of imprisonment; almost half of King County adults work from home now.

Serious race talk on local primetime TV; our toxic local skies might improve soon; a familiar figure and ‘repeat offender’ in a tragic murder-suicide case; some Capitol Hill apartment rents get lower.

A horrible couple of days for fires, smoke, winds, evacuations, and power outages throughout WA; more remote-schooling glitches; City Council approves scooter rental pilot program; SPD reform efforts get a new court-appointed ‘monitor.’

A local sci-fi author imagines transforming ‘oppressors’ into ‘kin;’ a techie dad parses the tech glitches facing remote schooling; a wildfire destroys a small eastern-WA town; a local sports broadcasting legend dies.

Sending WWII-era Japanese souvenirs back to Japan; Cal Anderson Park ‘swept’ again; police-oversight cases skyrocket; making a ‘City of Literature’ that tells more people’s stories.

SAM and (later) Frye Museum to reopen; more COVID cases among the unhoused; why the Seattle public-safety status quo isn’t working for many; authors and publishers complain to Congress about Amazon’s power.

Microsoft engineer makes ‘Black Lives Matter’ posters; City Council overrides veto of, then trims, COVID relief funding bill; REI to sell its new Bellevue offices; Microsoft launches its newest and costliest smartphone.

Boutique hotel opens at the wrong time; city council votes on modest police cuts and Navigation Team defunding today; ‘community radio’ founder/advocate dies; food banks stocking up for a ‘surge’ in demand.

Rick Steves is ‘traveling from home’ these days; marchers turned away from Chief Best’s suburban home; City Council’s police restructuring plan gets a lot more modest; Argosy Cruises ends its summer season early.

Another brutal police riot breaks out on Capitol Hill, as police/feds escalate their riots in Portland; WA passes 1,500 COVID deaths; more folks are getting priced out of Seattle; a report finds systemic racism in local restaurant biz.

Designer face-masking past and present; the tactically serious ‘high quirk’ of Portland protesters; most local schools will still be online this fall; Constantine wants to close the downtown county jail (eventually).

Video montage exposes SPD/Durkan spin tactics; county youth jail to close (eventually); ‘moms’ and leaf blowers on Portland’s front lines; high school football won’t resume in WA until March.