New blog on Seattle ‘post-grunge’ music; WA might use pension surplus to help fill budget deficit; Amazon dumps more Seattle office space; Bill Gates apologizes for Epstein meetings, insists he wasn’t a trafficking client.

Desktop-publishing mogul Paul Brainerd RIP; ICE arrested over 2,000 in WA last year; ‘millionaire tax’ bill includes a big corporate tax break; Mariners are back, but will your TV service get them?

Site-specific installations at a soon-to-be-razed home; Seahawks for sale after all; GOP procedural trick dooms many Legislature bills for this year; buying a home inside a video game (what could be more fun?).

Airport display sign repurposed as ‘kinetic sculpture;’ ‘millionaire tax’ bill passes state Senate, while Legislators reconsider estate tax; 20 families sue Boeing after 2024 crash.

Architect’s 3D-printed models of WA ferries; Amazon nixes Ring/Flock ‘surveillance tech’ deal; feds joining case of assault charges against a transgender high-school athlete; Harborview patient trashes ER room, almost causing explosion.

A local music video on roller skates; first responders ‘mistaken for ICE agents;’ parts of Pacific Science Center sold to Space Needle; getting ready for the big Seahawks parade.

Seahawks’ spectacular win and fan’ celebrations; another ex-Microsoft exec named in Epstein files; ‘right wing ideologues’ speak against millionaire-tax bill; lots of WA trees are ‘dead or dying;’

Family recalls a Seahawks superfan on eve of Super Bowl; Amazon’s stock drops from news of big AI spending; Boeing moving 787 engineers from here to S. Carolina; CHOP shooting survivor sues city.

Local artist’s seemingly-moving silhouettes; Ferguson hesitant about millionaire-income-tax bill; Gluesenkamp Perez’s primary challenger rakes in bucks; locals still fighting for Black history in schools.

Replacing stolen Peace Park statue; Ferguson, Brown planning for ‘worst-case’ ICE scenario as protests continue; ex-Starbucks VP claims retaliation in lawsuit; a Dem claiming Dems are ‘too liberal’ at the exact wrong time.

Old, poignant photos of migrants speak to today; SPD officers told not to interfere with ICE raids; Mayor Wilson (and Microsoft) seeking to jump-start more housing; awaiting the Seahawks’ biggest game in years.

Bruce Lee postage stamp announced; thousands (inc. Mayor Wilson) at Cal Anderson anti-ICE rally; Legislative session opens with money trouble; we’re all in a battle to preserve ‘the nation’s soul.’

Massive Monkees’ dance studio adds cafe; more federal arrests/shootings in Seattle, Portland bring more protests, responses; quarterback Demond Williams Jr. not leaving UW after all; ‘Can Katie Wilson build a movement?’

The Ins and the Outs for the year when we (somehow, we hope) begin to get rid of the goons running and ruining everything in DC.

New Octavia Butler biography; US 2 eastbound opening again (with limits); four die in alleged Eastside murder/suicide; ‘Somali child care providers in WA being harassed.’