Nooksack designer Louie Gong’s ‘Sasquatch Collection’ shoes; someone’s defacing Kshama Sawant’s house; Seattle’s Best Coffee sold to Nestlé; state could pay big $ over mentally-ill defendents stuck in jails.

Studying (and saving) ‘mid-century modern’ apartments; Chamber of Commerce poll shows support for housing; why crews sometimes let wildfires keep burning; two more days of smoky skies.

Peter Bacho’s book on growing up Filipino in Seattle; more wildfires mean more smoke; four city Human Rights Commission members quit; domestic-violence survivor fired from Amazon when she asks for time off to recover.

Another concept for ‘reviving’ Third Ave.; Mariners drag it out to the bitter (elongated) end; grocery clerks’ union opposes Kroger/Albertsons merger; King County scraps expanded-shelter plan in SoDo.

Kroger wants to eat up Albertsons/Safeway, to make a near-monopoly on NW grocery sales; Harrell wants more $ for encampment sweeps; court says UW must pay PETA $540,000 in a records lawsuit; wildfire smoke’s back, and 80-degree temps could be.

Local doc profiles railway tycoon James Hill; labor judge slams Starbucks’ union busting; Nazi-sympathetic blogger had short-lived job with state GOP; security guard reportedly assaults handcuffed woman.

William Shatner on the sadness of space as seen from Jeff Bezos’ rocket; Seattle’s COVID ‘state of emergency’ to end; another post-CHOP report instructs SPD to ‘repair public trust;’ city of SeaTac to get the nation’s highest minimum wage (at least for some occupations).

Local waterway gets Indigenous-honoring name; Mariners keep doing the impossible; local concrete co. could help US Supreme Court in union-busting; trying to shame car drivers who park in bike lanes.

Local artist depicts ‘self expression/identity;’ Sen. Murray goes where Tiffany Smiley fears to tread (Capitol Hill); what Amazon may want in the health-care biz; ‘Seattle Times’ shrinkage watch.

Local author on how to mentally survive on a changing planet; 191 texts were ‘manually deleted’ from Durkan’s phone after 2020 protests; local crab populations ‘flourishing’ but still not salmon; Congressional candidate Joe Kent tries to distance himself (but not too far) from far-right extremists.

Tacoma bar owners’ quest to restore the old, funny Rainier Beer ads; Seattle’s median income hits a new high (and why that’s bad); state official is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the COVID fight in WA; we just had our driest summer ever.

Local firm’s ‘metaverse platform’ of virtual offices; Seattle’s building lots of (costly) apartments; SAM’s reimagining its ‘American art’ collection; wildfire smoke comes back to Seattle bigtime.

Teamsters march en masse at Amazon HQ; acting SPD chief Diaz picked for permanent job; Boeing outsourcing corporate jobs to India; Nordstrom moves to stop a Mexican company from taking it over.

Central District art space/shop opens; county jail operating reforms could take years; WA opioid settlement could fall through; ‘A Week Without Driving’ is now underway.

How Indigenous and Asian Americans worked together in early local agriculture; West Seattle Bridge reopens at long last; Death Cab for Cutie’s ‘geocaching’ a downloadable song; a not-very-good weekend for the Seahawks and Mariners.