Getting Vonda N. McIntyre’s last novel published; remembering the slain trans UW student Juniper Blessing; Seattle schools top national scores (as a whole); happy Cascadia (Mount St. Helens) Day!

Teen’s anti-suicide clothing line; Seattle Housing Authority buildings derided as ‘unsafe;’ unionized REI workers call for anniversary-sale boycott; Seattle factory being built to create ‘autonomous warships.’

Kim Fu’s novel of ghosts, memories, and rain; ‘nearby gunfire’ disrupts Wilson speech; ‘Magic: the Gathering’ online game creators say they’ve unionized; drive to dissolve Homelessness Authority begins.

‘Augmented reality’ Seattle walking tour; whither the Regional Homelessness Authority?; Microsoft offers early retirement to thousands of workers; Nick Hanauer asks ‘which capitalism’ we really want.

Photog captures new life in long-logged forests; Homelessness Authority can’t find $13 million; Starbucks staffers worry over company’s future in Seattle; parents rally to prevent school closures.

Ex-Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur’s memoir; Bothell cops accused of anti-Asian violence in massage-parlor raids; candy maker Brown & Haley merges with China firm; Starbucks to open big Nashville office.

‘Black Panther Park’ opens in Skyway; tech consultant asks ‘Whither Microsoft?’, Ada’s Technical Books closing in June; many ‘unlicensed food carts’ could be due to ‘multi-state networks.’

Joel Connelly ends half-century reporting on the NW; feds turn back Chinese scholars at Sea-Tac; Amazon (again) accused of underpaying women workers; musicians here celebrate Live Nation verdict.

Punk Rock Flea Market makes the UK papers; Naomi Ishisaka’s FB account hacked, she gets blamed for results; ladders, catwalks ordered taken out of Gas Works Park; Black queer couple makes ‘Seattle’s best latte.’

Canadian costumed alt-music duo’s video a hit for KEXP; Wilson to ‘go bigger’ on housing, density; old Garfield High scandal/tragedy revisited; is White House ‘dismantling’ Forest Service?

Photog Bootsy Holler’s views of Seattle music in ‘pre-digital’ era; Ferguson signs ‘millionaires tax,’ lawsuits already forming; Amazon plans ‘massive computing campus’ on the Columbia.

Another, even bigger, ‘No Kings’ rally/march; light rail finally crosses Lake Washington; farmers feel pain from war-inflated fuel, fertilizer prices; folk-pop singer turned talk-TV host Dick Foley RIP.

Ancient Native ‘forest gardens’ in BC; Kraken owners make moves to bid on new Sonics franchise; WA sues USDA over ‘unlawful demands;’ why a local cement plant burns a million tires a year (and wants to burn more).

New film based (sort-of) on a true Seattle story; Spokane pastor’s Islamophobic preaching on tour; Wilson pauses city use of AI tech; greater downtown’s now got over 100,000 residents.

Art exhibits portray Black women, power, and wisdom; ‘millionaire tax’ passes WA House after 24-hour debate; Starbucks union fights latest closure plans; big Boeing deal to sell smart bombs to Israel.