More floods attack the hard-hit BC interior; the Crocodile has its third grand opening; a labor group claims Amazon under-reports worker COVID cases; the city settles with Charleena Lyles’ family for $3.5 million.

Indigenous contemporary art to view this T-Day weekend, highlighting a list of mostly cultural items left over from recent newsletter issues.

Ex-local author tries to tell the real story about early Seattle’s top madame (honored at the reopening Crocodile); Real Change founder’s new venture; City Council doesn’t cut ‘open’ SPD jobs; Vancouver’s ‘cut off’ from the rest of Canada.

Big show at SAM about a major photog from here (who did most of her work elsewhere); flooding cleanup’s underway in WA, while the (bigger) disaster continues in BC; is the ‘Recall Sawant’ campaign sexist, or just some of its loudest supporters?

Neptune Theatre turns 100; 2022 Seattle budget battle’s already underway; community groups want investigations into abuses by Vancouver and Clark County law enforcement; Inslee removes a Legislative foe by picking him for Secretary of State.

A true-crime podcast depicts a Boeing engineer turned master bank robber; Seattle schools take an extra day off this week; KEXP boss retires after three decade; Re-bar to become a piano bar.

Further post-election blather; kids’ vaccines get underway; father of young man killed near 2020 CHOP protests files new lawsuit; could Carmen Best go on to lead the NYPD?

Local music vet Ken Stringfellow denies several women’s sexual-misconduct claims; more windstorm fallout; another judge upholds state vax mandate; Amazon’s employee-leave policies said to have many major flaws.

Non-Van Gogh ‘immersive’ art ‘experiences’ around town; Mandate Monday #1 finds few affected workers ousted (except WSU football coach Nick Rolovich); a rich white guy thinks racism’s dead and ‘the free market’ did it.

New doc covers an anti-racist protest (and pro-racist counterprotest); many Pike Place Market and South Lake Union businesses still struggle; Portland cops won’t stop vandals unless they can bust heads; it’s Vax Deadline Monday #1!

The local origins of Netflix’s hit series ‘Maid;’ the welcome rise of Indigenous People’s Day; County Councilmember Kathy Lambert apologizes for racially-charged campaign flyer; the real reasons for WA’s ferry-crew shortages.

County Councilmember race-baits a (white) election rival; SPD prepares for firings of unvaxxed cops, while Inslee might impose a private-sector vax mandate; Melinda French Gates joins ‘Forbes 400’ on her own.

Light rail expands to U District and Northgate at last; Mariners almost make the playoffs; harassment scandal roils women’s pro soccer; Anchorage’s mayor supports ‘vaccine mandates are like the Holocaust’ BS while its health-care system’s in collapse.

More light rail (at long last); Ms have a real playoff chance (at long last); UW study shows a lot more people are killed by cops nationally than are officially counted as such; Rep. Jayapal’s personal abortion story.

Early maps of growing towns (with ’embellishments’); lots of unpaid utility bills are about to come due; SAM now has the first Black female board head at any major (non-ethnic) US museum; celebrating the Ms’ amazing season.