An old Soviet fighter jet re-dressed for art and beauty; Microsoft announces lots more layoffs; much of Washington’s under ‘burn ban’ orders; what’s there to celebrate this weekend?

Pride Parade with more defiance, fewer corporations; Seattle population, personal wealth hit new records; AG Brown blasts ‘birthright citizenship’ court ruling; Idaho sniper attacks firefighters.

WA-made film on better living thru time travel; Rinck, Harrell seek B&O tax hike on big biz; Mariners’ first starting pitcher RIP; big land sale out of DC budget bill, ‘devastating’ Medicaid cuts still in.

Bobby Sherman RIP; GOP plan to sell lots of federal lands hits legal snag; state budget-shortfall prediction gets worse; who isn’t going to major local attractions these days.

Fremont Solstice Parade’s comment on the national situation; Bartell’s last stores will rebrand as CVS; a fatal police standoff on East Madison Street; a last chance to remember Memorial Stadium.

Correcting a story about an affordable development; rally for ‘diplomacy over military action;’ nearby property owners want Denny Blaine Park totally closed; what the Fremont parade still means today.

Tribute concert to outlaw-folk artist Michael Hurley; local anti-ICE march with bigger ones to follow; city investigating SPD actions at transphobic rally; burglar attacks Macklemore’s kids’ nanny.

Kshama Sawant running for congress; Cathy Moore quitting City Council; city attorney candidate Nathan Rouse vowing to rein in police guild’s power; feds create, then drop, list of ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions.

What the CHOP/CHAZ protests did/didn’t accomplish; bill to loosen City Council ethics rules dropped; local lawmakers visit ICE jail; KC deputy accused of raping teen Explorers member.

Graphic novel of gay Asians in Seattle; Filipina UW lab tech ordered released by ICE; MS foresees AI changing the whole Internet; county assessor Wilson asked to resign after restraining order.

Spokane fundamentalists rally again, SPD arrests only counter-demonstrators again; school district budget balanced (for now); wildfire season starts; ‘thousands of jobs disappear’ in the region.

Cafe Allegro at 50; NW Folklife Festival at 54; mayoral poll has Katie Wilson slightly ahead of incumbent Bruce Harrell; Gov. Ferguson warns of dire health-care consequences if GOP budget bill passes the US Senate.

Microsoft fetes 50 years by laying off thousands; state, transit orgs. sue against federal spending cuts; Boeing settles with whistleblower’s survivors; ‘mental health crisis center’ plan faces neighborhood opposition.

Rally defends suspended UW activists; ICE spying on Spokane immigration activist; Bill Gates plans to donate his fortune, wind down Gates Foundation in 20 years; the all-American (and apparently anti-MAGA) new pope.

Tessa Hulls’ graphic novel ‘Feeding Ghosts’ wins Pulitzer; state sues feds over massive HHS cuts; Rite Aid/Bartell returns to bankruptcy; pro-Palestinian UW students take over engineering building.