Praise for a rare-book store; more on Boeing’s big layoff plan; more on I-2117’s dangers to WA’s environment; how the housing crisis fuels domestic violence.

‘SNL’ takes on Amazon (again); Boeing laying off 10 percent of workers; a newborn orca may be dying; should the state sell or preserve ‘future old growth’ trees?

Seattle Opera’s ‘Jubilee’ celebrates Black spirituals; Boeing accuses Machinists of ‘bad faith’ bargaining; two historic restaurant reopenings; sexual-harassment claims at UW computer science lab.

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.’

SAM’s lobby ‘tree’ installation going away; Auburn tightens anti-homeless law; Boeing, machinists to resume contract talks; conflicting protests mark one year of the Gaza siege.

Local artist’s ‘grunge coloring book;’ big Market/waterfront walkway opens; Boeing machinists’ strike hits three-week mark; community activist arrested in connection to a big drug bust.

Grand Illusion Cinema needs a new home; Sara Nelson says she wants to save Seattle Channel; woman killed in W. Seattle shooting was an ex-doctor and Jan. 6 riot participant; who vandalized Bellevue’s Pride mural?

8th Generation founder’s new Bruce Lee murals; another GOP statewide candidate bashes Seattle (with added racist overtones); Seattle Schools propose new, smaller, closure plan; Amazon gets a partial legal victory in FTC suit.

Celebrating 100 years since the first around-the-world flight ended here; Harrell’s budget may have faulty numbers; the possible (grim) real reason fentanyl ODs are down these days; remembering Kris Kristofferson’s Seattle movie.

Microsoft vet buys naming rights to a giant space telescope; saving the Seattle Channel from Harrell’s budget axe; Asylum-seekers’ Kent encampment swept; the ‘special kind of futility’ known by Mariners fans.

Seattle-shot 1936 horror short becomes a festival hit; Mariners’ futility marches on; Boeing and striking machinists return to negotiations; no, fewer encampments does NOT mean fewer unhoused people.

Why Macklemore’s still getting berated; more city budget-plan details; Amazon workers don’t want to be back in the office full-time; the historic link between whale hunting and car transmission fluid.

Filmmakers spend years covering Aurora sex workers’ struggles; Harrell’s budget plan raids affordable housing to hire more cops; Afghans top WA’s refugee arrivals; Paul Allen estate pledges $9 million to downtown arts groups.