What those ‘HOMELESSNESS’ billboards are really about; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wins in 3rd Congressional District; nobody seems to want a big new airport except the planners and bureaucrats; Ingraham students staging citywide, anti-gun-violence walkout today.

‘Typewriter eraser’ sculpture leaves town in Paul Allen estate’s big art sale; student advocates don’t want cops back in schools; bus fatally runs over pedestrian; Amazon cutting more units.

Second set of ballots doesn’t change city, state races; Amazon’s stock value drops $1 trillion since year’s start; Paul Allen’s private art collection auctioned for a total of $1.5 billion; Ingraham High School shooting suspect could face a murder charge.

Sen. Patty Murray heads a slate of winning (or currently leading) WA Dems; Ingraham High shooting kills one student; ex-mayor Nickels defends the honor of ‘wealthy, older white people’; a Jackson Street jazz legend (and interracial-marriage groundbreaker) dies at 96.

New performance venue at ex-Can Can site aims to ‘rekindle Seattle arts scene’; big midterm races go down to the wire; SPD’s ‘history of killing people with knives;’ Dungeness crab dying off due to lack of oxygen.

Sir Mix-A-Lot honored for his work helping local musicians during the shutdowns; over 300,000 folks lose power to weekend windstorms; city budget projections keep getting worse; ‘the threat to democracy is alive and well in WA state.’

Memories of the Bumbershoot arts festival’s One Reel-produced era; investigating a 2021 protest-site clash between an undercover cop and undercover deputies; should Union Station have trains again?; could Gonzaga basketball move to a major conference?

Gillian G. Gaar on Elton John (and much else); Inslee wants more housing, shelters, and sweeps; city issues a ‘dire’ revenue forecast; Amazon’s ‘Treasure Trucks’ grounded for good.

Aquarium expansion, Market-to-waterfront walkway now under construction; city sues opioid makers’ PR firm; Tacoma’s guaranteed-income program’s a temporary success; can progressives learn to at least talk persuasively to each other?

The UW’s big new greenhouse; post-‘emergency’ COVID era here begins on the Day of the Dead; Lavender Country singer (a lifelong gay activist) dies at 78; Tiffany Smiley’s debate prevarications.

Still more local Halloween hijinx; Dems pour big $ into Murray re-election drive; Inslee plans more pro-choice proposals for the next Legislature; federal agents spied on 2020 Portland protesters.

Film photography’s big comeback; City Council’s ‘resident concern troll;’ Amazon stock price drops 20 percent; woman sues psychiatric hospital that kept her against her will.

One-woman show about growing up Black in Seattle; VP Harris touts electric school buses; local overdose deaths reach new record; waiting for Standard Time (one more time).

More Halloween-esque spectacles; even-scarier GOP campaign ads; Rep. Jayapal pulls back from asking Biden to negotiate with Putin over Ukraine; prosecutor candidate Ferrell’s just-for-show ‘tough on drugs’ policy.

Local doctor’s memoir on the bad ol’ pre-‘Gray’s’ years for women in medicine; D’Vonne Pickett’s alleged killer may have ‘harassed’ him for years; COVID disruptions were bad for school test scores; floods might replace wildfires.