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Pix of travelers returning to local attractions; Amazon workers want company to stop donating to abortion foes; Amtrak will go to Vancouver BC again; what does July 4 mean in a time of internal threats against freedom?
Lava Lounge building burns; Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic closing Yesler site; Pac-12 loses both LA schools; whether or not to celebrate this July 4.
Seattle’s vast, post-lockdown music scene(s); Charleena Lyles’ father’s emotional inquest testimony; Amazon limits ‘Plan B’ pill orders; why we can’t have more tourist-beloved shopping alleys.
Charles Johnson co-creates an Afro-Futurist-Buddhist graphic novel; Teatro ZinZanni’s post-COVID, post-Woodinville comeback; wildfire forces evacuations near Soap Lake; a pro-choice state constitutional amendment isn’t likely.
Locally-set novel about a tech mogul who uploads his consciousness; gruesome details at Charleena Lyles shooting inquest; WA pastor calls for LGBTQ mass murder; strike at 1st & Pike Starbucks.
Locally-made web series depicts a high school gay/straight alliance club; first little-kids’ COVID vaccines get injected; city’s JumpStart payroll tax survives in state court; Amazon’s top-exec ranks get even whiter.
Local artist’s kids’ book about a magical drag-queen wig and the predictable backlash; ‘life science tower’ proposed at El Corazon site; ‘social housing’ initiative drive gets close to a spot on the ballot; summer’s finally showing up (both on the calendar and for real).
Storm superstar to retire after 19 seasons; Seattle will get some World Cup soccer matches; KEXP’s boss will become SIFF’s boss; using data to find biased comments in employee reviews.
Internet Explorer’s official end; Starbucks ‘happens to’ fire another union organizer; alleged bicycle thief tries to escape on I-5 bridge; what has, will, and won’t be back this summer.
Library/UW VR project shows how sea-level rise will affect the Duwamish; what the city/county ‘child care bonus’ will really pay workers; race-bias stats among King Co. deputies; Langley’s got an official Conan O’Brien trash can.
Vito’s is closed indefinitely after a massive apt. fire upstairs; SPU grads give its prez Pride flags at commencement; more on the attempted Patriot Front violence in Idaho; timber baron George Weyerhaeuser RIP.
Selling engraved maps on wood to fund a planning-consultant business; Patriot Front stopped from rioting at an Idaho Pride rally; tower project with an old 747 in its middle beset by lawsuits; “Bruce” the musical and the need to believe.
‘Banksyland’ touring exhibit and its discontents; West Seattle Bridge has a reopening date (maybe); state Supreme Court ruling ties police ‘seizures’ to race; PACCAR’s making, and King County’s buying, electric garbage trucks.
Book honors Black women in WA history; Supreme Court says Blaine bar owner can’t sue over abuse by Border Patrol agent; Microsoft AI leader leaves after sexual-misconduct claims; a semi topples on top of a pedestrian in the south end.
Noting seven years of these e-missives (and many more years of yrs. truly); hospital leaders say to put your masks back on; Nooksack ‘disenrollment’ case goes to state Supreme Court; Snohomish Co. sheriff guts life-saving outreach teams.