A local comics creator’s poignant last work; wildfire season’s truly here; complaints against sheriff’s deputies ignored; WA’s first Latino heritage museum.

Original Pagliacci Pizza site to close; when corporate charity doesn’t help much; Durkan defends police-chief search; your basic horrid SCOTUS pick.

Carmen Best gets considered for permanent police-chief job after all; steam-plant comix in progress; game co. fires woman for a ‘Twitter argument’.

Seattle’s First Lady of tattoos; Boeing’s new offshore R&D team; origins of the Seattle Dog; another call for Dems to be not too radical.

Funko puts the cool back into cereal; fighting street posters with street posters; turning waste plastic into human hands; tough-love for the USA.

Tracking every tree in south King County; life in an Amazon warehouse; celebrating the Fourth when you’re not so proud of your country.

Quotes from the SeaTac immigrant-rights rally; another threat to salmon (and hence orcas); where’s the mystery pop machine?

A Harlan Ellison memory; Jayapal arrested at DC protest; the SPD ‘mass exodus’ that isn’t; Tacoma beats Seattle (at something not good).

Local politicians denounce SCOTUS’ blow to unions (and Democratic campaigns); Boeing’s ‘hypersonic’ dream; Bellevue’s robo-vanpool dream.

Travel Ban court ruling denounced; Maru Mora Villalpando gets a legal reprieve; Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe, and the almost-naked truth.

Luxury apartment glut; immigrant mothers sue the feds; parking-space stickers going away; a parody/nadir in the bottled water craze.

LGBTQ paraders for immigrant rights; jackets for those who DO care; a guy claims women’s brains aren’t built for coding; publishers gaming Amazon via “book stuffing.”

The lost art of the courtroom sketch; Bob Ferguson’s latest crusade against the feds; out-of-state online sales tax likely won’t hurt Amazon.

A map of Seattle’s weirdest places; still more family-separation backlash; Seattle Symphony’s VR push; crime fear vs. reality.

More reaction against ICE child-taking; a personal collection of slavery artifacts; bringing the (beautiful) sea lamprey back to local waters.