Remembering the ‘Baseball Saved Us’ author; Harrell spoke to the ‘independent’ PAC supporting him; federal troops still barred from Portland’s streets; Mariners lose ALCS game 3 by a lot.

Retrospective doc about 1999 WTO protests reaps award nomination; county assessor Wilson won’t run again; mixed fiscal news in first ‘WA Music Census;’ Amazon suspends employee who dissed company’s ties to Israel.

Still more on the magic Mariners; disgusting stories from inside Tacoma ICE jail; state now says priests don’t have to report child abuse (under some conditions); are we in a recession yet?

SIFF won’t reopen Egyptian Theatre; controversial cop won’t run East Precinct after all; ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural vandalized; WSU report says shootings are now the #1 cause of high-school students’ deaths.

Li’l kids can now play-act as Amazon drivers; vandal strikes WA Capitol building; city spent big bucks on hotel rooms for the homeless, then let them sit empty; judge bars federal troops from Portland—again.

Rehabbed Salmon Bone Bridge reopens; local responses to fed govt. shutdown; anti-trans rally organizers sue city and Harrell; ‘tattoo queen of Seattle’ wants her stolen marionette back.

Tower project with an old 747 at its center is ‘back on;’ why the MAGAs want a gov’t shutdown; why the MAGAs are out to get Portland; Seattle, WA minimum wages to rise next year.

Ex-‘Seattle Sketcher’ spreads the word about hand-drawn art; city, state leaders don’t want US troops on our streets; big $$ for Harrell re-election campaign; last three Bartell Drug stores close.

Mariners-owned TV channel closes; Rendezvous buyers make themselves known; Harrell claims most of Seattle’s unhoused people aren’t from here; Portland isn’t ‘war-torn,’ doesn’t want federal troops on its streets.

Seattle Symphony’s first female music director; Katie Wilson calls herself a ‘socialist’ (but not a purist ideologue); downtown foot traffic, hotel biz set high marks; Mariners, Cal Raleigh reach milestones.

‘Baseball cards’ depict crooked and/or abusive cops; state AG Brown warns of ‘race-based policing’ after US Supreme Court ruling; WA Justice Mary Yu retiring; ‘Seattle’s racial income gap among the widest.’

Songstress Julie Cascioppo’s new memoir; WA says it won’t feed private voter info to feds; why so many people hate expanding SPD’s surveillance-cam network; an ex-Microsoft exec’s in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘birthday book.’

Tomo Nakayama’s song of optimism; western governors form vax partnership; fed oversight of SPD officially ends; don’t expect the ‘Prize Patrol’ to come knocking any time soon.

PAX West and the business of play; AI’s real threat isn’t what ‘AI doomers’ claim; officials vow to keep Sound Transit projects funded; could Boeing be prosecuted over 737 MAX disasters?

Sock puppets mime to Council meetings in videos; feds used WA DOL data to track down undocumented residents; Microsoft asked FBI to spy on pro-Gaza employees; can kazoos drown out homophobic preacher?