Video reassures those with ‘Tesla Regret Syndrome,’ while stunters put fake Bezos message on crosswalk buttons; FAA scrutinized over 737 MAX incident oversight; who’ll be King Co.’s second temp-exec?

Exhibit of artworks made from throw-aways; Legislative Dems’ ‘sweeping’ new tax plan and its corporate discontents; China halts Boeing deliveries; what Earth Day means this year.

New book touts Seattle’s ‘urban nature;’ Seattle Pride’s corporate donors are way down; local construction jobs are also way down; why are so many US institutions kneeling before the MAGA regime?

Virginia Inn’s owner says it’s getting evicted; DC regime wants more logging, less help for salmon; some Martin Selig office buildings go to a receiver; Dems in Legislature may ‘bypass’ Ferguson veto threat on wealth tax proposal.

Massive anti-MAGA/DOGE rallies in Seattle, elsewhere; another WA lawsuit to save research funding; melting ice bringing more whales to the Arctic; Storm legend Sue Bird named to Basketball Hall of Fame.

The landscape-healing power of gophers; local reactions to tariff-mania; legislators seek a response to Ferguson’s tax-aversion; High Dive music venue moving to larger space after 20 years, while an art gallery takes over a seafood warehouse.

Couple’s AI-altered selfie gets lotsa hate; how SPD manipulated local media in 2020; state House, Senate budget plans still far apart in sections; local federal lawyer sues feds over free speech rights.

50 years of Microsoft; protests against Musk and ICE; state Senate OKs budget plan with business, wealth taxes; 5th Avenue Theatre forms ‘alliance’ with Seattle Theatre Group.

The Kingdome: 24 years here, 25 years gone; judge in Tacoma blocks military anti-trans policy; Ark Lodge Cinemas to become ‘world cinema’ nonprofit; targets of Oly tax-hike plans hate the whole idea.

New Seattle civic poet recounts decades in immigration-bureaucracy hell; sudden, massive federal health cuts hit home; city payroll-tax collections way down; we got rain and lightning but no tornados.

White Center as ‘new creative hotbed;’ county exec Constantine to lead Sound Transit; state Senate Dems’ proposed budget includes gas-tax hike; UW prof fights back at ‘assault on Black history.’

Norwegian artist recreates printed photos on giant steel sheets; Murray, Reykdal defend US Education Dept.; state Senate Dems propose new taxes on the rich; could Sonics’ comeback finally be near?

More than just manga at MoPOP’s ‘Asian Comics’ exhibit; WA sues against fed education cuts; still no Starbucks union contract after a year; Harrell orders Steinbrueck Park reopened as of today.

The latest MISCmedia book (possibly the best yet); how tariffs will hurt big & small business & everybody; state joins lawsuit over federal job cuts; suspect in USPS worker’s murder apparently kills self.

Lidia Yuknavitch’s second (sort-of) memoir; Gold Rush museum could close in selloff of federal properties; tariffs are already hurting many NW businesses; marking five years since the COVID era’s real start.