Last Sears in WA (one of the last anywhere) closing; Lake Union streetcar lives for now; Amazon joins Musk in trying to kill federal Labor Board; the MAGA cult as a study in target marketing.

Non-Native-made totem poles returning to Steinbrueck Park; fire devastates Camp Long Lodge; Councilmember Saka wants Lake Union Streetcar gone; county exec Constantine decides four terms are enough.

SAM’s lobby ‘tree’ installation going away; Auburn tightens anti-homeless law; Boeing, machinists to resume contract talks; conflicting protests mark one year of the Gaza siege.

New Netflix series totally made in WA; protests against school closures; initiative promoter Brian Heywood’s group accused of campaign-finance violations; Boeing to furlough many non-striking workers.

China Harbor restaurant closing; Amazon wants corporate staff in the office every day; Harrell wants social housing to have to fight for $$ instead of getting its own funding; Wing Luke Museum director resigns.

Boeing Machinists start first strike in 16 years; 650 Microsoft Xbox workers laid off; ‘divest from Israel’ activists disrupt UW Regents meeting; jury says state ‘not negligent’ in CHOP protester’s death on I-5 in 2020.

More on the late music journalist Charles R. Cross; affordable-housing operator to sell six buildings; Woodland Park Zoo workers reach new contract; an area school district nears fiscal collapse.

A memoir by the cousin who grew up with Ted Bundy; city attorney proposes zones for increased drug enforcement; Amazon’s profits up but sales down; Rite Aid’s not through closing Bartell stores.

More on the ex-weekly paper’s new management; Council starts work on rolling back minimum-wage gains; capital-gains repeal could cost 10,000 jobs; re-opened Northlake Tavern re-closes.

Web comic ‘The Oatmeal’ turns 15 and has a Netflix show; cop who joked about Jaahnavi Kandula’s death is fired; Boeing machinists authorize a (potential) strike vote; Seattle’s become ‘too expensive for artists.’

The prettiest Taco Time is going away; what got cut from city’s Transportation Levy; a new name for an old light-rail stop; Kraken hires NHL’s first female asst. coach.

Cafe Racer closing for 5th (and last?) time; Scarecrow Video needs $$ to survive; Boeing CEO tells Congress the company’s getting back on track; ‘grim conditions’ reported at Capitol Hill youth jail.

‘Gays eating garlic bread’ event is a hit in real life and online; City Council, as predicted, approves big SPD retroactive-pay deal; UW student employees go on strike; feds say Boeing’s violated a post-737-MAX-crashes settlement.

Storm legend, in new doc, states her case as Seattle sports’ GOAT; new SPD contract would include huge retroactive raises; outcry after Frye Art Museum curator’s layoff; Victor Steinbrueck’s little house to go for big bucks.

PBS docu-series recounts local COVID responses; famed mountain climber Lou Whittaker dies; anti-fossil-fuel protest held at Amazon’s head offices; and, oh yeah, it’s baseball season.