More local protests, vigils, reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; King Co. will end its mask mandate when the state does; another fatal shooting on Third Ave.; legislature’s gas-export tax proposal may be dropped.

Temporary ‘COVID Remembrance Project’ now underway; UW football coach Jimmy Lake’s suspended for one game; 9 percent of Boeing’s US workers want a vax exemption; how has Amazon changed fiction?

Celebrating 50 years since the Pike Place Market preservation initiative; Climate Pledge Arena officially opens; a GOP state House member complains about vax requirement to get into his office; 51 past and present SPD officers are on a King County disciplinary list.

New book recalls a beloved U District hangout; fired WSU football coach sues over vax mandate; Ferndale aluminum plant could reopen; a trans-woman politician in Cobain’s old hometown.

New book chronicles a local architect’s life and work; more Mandate Monday #1 fallout; Edmonds school reverts to remote learning; state charges Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer with lying to officials.

Non-Van Gogh ‘immersive’ art ‘experiences’ around town; Mandate Monday #1 finds few affected workers ousted (except WSU football coach Nick Rolovich); a rich white guy thinks racism’s dead and ‘the free market’ did it.

County Councilmember race-baits a (white) election rival; SPD prepares for firings of unvaxxed cops, while Inslee might impose a private-sector vax mandate; Melinda French Gates joins ‘Forbes 400’ on her own.

The history and possible future of WA’s oil refineries; A Day Without Facebook; some state workers will get a vax-mandate extension; SPD overseers find no official wrongdoing from last summer’s East Precinct abandonment.

Digital studio creates CGI still backdrops for drag and other performers; nonprofits’ troubles holding to diversity pledges; Real Change cofounder’s new ‘street paper’ venture; what it means when local candidates say they’re ‘abolitionist.’

A concept for a ‘car-free Aurora Avenue;’ the state predicts our current bad COVID wave will continue; mayoral candidate Lorena Gonzalez reveals her big homelessness strategy; the Kraken is born.

‘Black Lives Matter’ street mural installed at City Hall; UBC psychologist predicted the pandemic-reaction nonsense in 2019; crowded hospitals again delay non-COVID-related surgeries; Seahawks drop home opener in OT.

Heatwave-decimated snowpacks on Mt. Rainier; King County to require vax proof for many indoor and outdoor public spaces; waiting for the big rain/wind storm to show up; Inscape art studios endangered.

Seattle’s ‘biggest band’ (by number of members) has never all met in person; COVID hospitalizations ‘level off’ at a still-too-high mark; big construction-workers’ strike starts; Macklemore’s golf-themed apparel brand has a pop-up store.

Montlake highway ‘lid’ project to get bigger in nine years; WA hits another cruel COVID mark with over 7,000 deaths; is Rep. Jayapal a cruel boss or a victim of sexist double standards?; how ‘hesitancy’ can be manipulated, exploited.

A Tacoma park’s old storybook statues are up for auction; Cafe Racer’s ready for its re-re-reopening; Microsoft’s keeping office workers at home for ‘the foreseeable future’; and, yes, there’s that grim anniversary.