Remembering comix creator Noel Franklin; more poignant demonstrators and more police (over) reaction; 85 COVID cases on one Seattle-based factory trawler; suburban ‘communities of color’ have lost the most jobs in the lockdown.6/2/20:

Serious talk about facing systemic racism and violent police; plus the looting and such; plus the COVID news (no ‘phase 2’ for King County yet).

Legendary DJ/performance space won’t reopen (at its current spot); King County counts its 500th COVID death; more anti-quarantine protests, lawsuits; Pramila Jayapal wants a Paycheck Guarantee Act.

Still more on storefront murals and their creators; City Council won’t vote on ‘Amazon tax’ for a good while; Soundgarden members sue Vicky Cornell over benefit-concert money; a brief Mother’s Day message.

Animations of hope projected on a wall; how that last Sounders match didn’t get canceled; alt-right rally goers in Olympia defy social distancing guidelines; the king of false COVID rumors (on the receiving end).

An anonymous street artist’s words from role-model women; a three-state pact (we’re by far the hardest-hit) will coordinate COVID responses; Inslee’s early releases may not make prisoners safer; a legal settlement ends the ‘Uber union’ push for now.

Ideas on how to re-direct Wash. state’s post-virus future; school’s out (at home) for a lot longer; the stress is getting to many of us, especially kids; our region may have passed Peak Virus already.

Ghostly beauty from a stalled Seattle Opera production; state and county COVID numbers show at least a little progress; Whole Foods workers stage a ‘sick out;’ democracy vouchers survive one last challenge.

Pictures from a bustling place gone almost still; losing a beloved Leschi neighborhood fixture; unemployment-security requests boom; ‘Tax Amazon’ initiative filed.

All public events in a three-county area are either banned or heavily restricted, depending on size; lots more school districts are closing; Joe Biden takes the presidential-primary lead; Boeing’s year-to-date orders are in minus figures.

The state may ban all 250-or-more local public gatherings; there’s no WA presidential primary winner yet; Boeing workers split on latest contract offer; at least it’s a great time to take a quiet urban bike ride.

Lots of songs to wash hands by; another plethora of local COVID updates & responses; Congress members accuse Boeing of promoting a ‘culture of concealment’; what the internment-memorial mural incident tells about modern Bellevue.

A lot more coronavirus updates and reactions; a strange rare creature that’s even more endangered by virus-panic; two more Bellevue College leaders fired after art-statement alteration; Seattle magazine’s got a new local owner.

How Seattle’s bygone Queen of Neon was rediscovered; Re-bar at 30; Bumbershoot Lives! (in some form); another big ruling against Tim Eyman (whom Republicans still (heart symbol)).

Connecting the WWII internments’ lessons to today’s anti-immigrant hysteria; the downtown ex-Bon Marché’s final days; Caffe Vita’s new owner tries to heal past discord; local researchers try to invent a coronavirus vaccine.