Tammy Morales quits City Council; legal-aid lawyer runs for city attorney; Teamsters file union-bashing charges against Costco; HomeStreet Bank merger’s off.

Do the WTO protests have a lesson for today?; Girmay Zahilay confirms run for county exec; Facebook owes WA $24.6 mil over campaign-ad violations; LIHI says banks demand eviction-law concessions.

Century Ballroom closing sometime in ’25; Anheuser-Busch closing Elysian’s Georgetown brewery; Harrell announces expanded downtown ‘activation teams;’ Seattle Storm coaches accused of ‘player mistreatment.’

Sub Pop’s remastered Gits reissues; Seattle school-board head target of recall drive; local minister/homeless advocate accused of owning child-porn; Ferguson keeps fighting abortion-pill restrictions.

Newly-dedicated Jackson Street Jazz Trail; Amazon told (again) to let workers vote on unions; gov-elect Ferguson on resisting the neo-MAGA regime; what we all can/must do now.

Remembering a music legend’s Seattle roots; Machinists vote to end Boeing strike; Bell Canada buys a WA legacy phone/broadband company; oh, and something else is happening today.

Reminders of a funkier pre-tech Seattle; pre-election-day polls show a solid blue wave here; Inslee OKs 24-mile-long wind farm near Tri-Cities; Boeing CEO’s ultimatum to striking Machinists ahead of contract vote.

Art exhibit spoofs a certain retail legend; Boeing Machinists to vote on another contract offer; Amazon Web Services is now the company’s chief profit center; Seahawk games could use more ’12s’ and fewer tourists.

WA’s ‘strangest gravesite;’ Seattle Schools picks four elementary schools to close; why Boeing machinists are still striking; Fall City teen charged with shooting his family.

New York mag’s doting profile of Christopher Rufo; SAM security staff prepare to strike; Bellevue OKs affordable housing on church properties; Harrell wants to ‘repeal blast-ball ban for protests.’

How to drink (moderately) through a birthday; Councilmember Tanya Woo wants no-protest zones around politicians’ homes; a robotic salad shop’s opening on Capitol Hill; Fall City teen charged with killing five people.

New book collects comics of Japanese American life in Seattle; striking machinists hold big rally; famed local artist Gloria Bornstein dies; is Seattle politics really both too antagonistic AND close-knit?

Scarecrow Video raises enough money to survive for now; Harrell could divert even more JumpStart money; SPD might leave federal oversight soon; UW biochemist co-wins a Nobel Prize.

Saving one of the region’s last big theater organs; survey says more folks are ‘optimistic’ about Seattle; lawsuit challenges Amazon’s hiring practices; Boeing’s bond rating perhaps headed for ‘junk’ level.

Remembering the anti-IWW ‘massacres;’ right-wing trolls’ death threats against a Seattle Times reporter; lawsuit against Amazon mostly proceeds; Andrea Suarez ‘wants to go backwards on homelessness.’