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5/23/25: KING OF CUPS
May 22nd, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

5/14/25: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! YOU’RE FIRED.
May 13th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

5/9/25: PRO-PROTESTER PROTEST
May 8th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

5/6/25: ‘GHOSTS’ WITH THE MOST
May 5th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

5/5/25: DEEP FRIED, DEEP TROUBLE
May 4th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

Recalling the infamous Donut House on 1st & Pike; judge strikes down White House order against law firm Perkins Coie; first tariff horror stories emerge; cops crack down on Denny Blaine nudes.

5/1/25: BLACK (AND PINK) TO THE FUTURE
Apr 30th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

Tariqa Waters’ SAM solo show explores yesterday’s tomorrow; study says we’re ‘overdue’ for a ‘big one’ earthquake; feds to ‘investigate’ WA allowing trans school athletes; a May Day call to action.

4/28/25: DONE UNDER THE DOME
Apr 27th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

Legislative session ends with rent-hike caps, without wealth tax; tariff mess causes seaport slowdown; Soundgarden makes it into R&R Hall of Fame; Amazon scheduled an online book sale on Indie Bookstore Day.

4/23/25: CLOSING THE ‘HOUSE OF ZING’
Apr 22nd, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

Cartoonist Mark Zingarelli RIP; Bartell’s owner bankrupt (again); more Boeing Field deportation flights; marking 10 years of Seattle’s ‘living’ minimum wage.

4/22/25: FAR FROM MONASTIC
Apr 21st, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

Remembering Seattle’s most notorious dance club; locals mourn the pope; Boeing gets planes planes China rejected; Legislative Dems drop plans to raise the property-tax lid as session’s scheduled end nears.

4/21/25: NOT GIVING UP, NOT GOING AWAY
Apr 20th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

More protests here, around US; state Sen. Bill Ramos suddenly dies, as state budget moves go on; FBI questions Oak Harbor punk band over ‘anti fascist’ lyrics.

4/14/25: ‘INN’ OR OUT?
Apr 13th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

4/7/25: ‘HANDS OFF;’ BATTLE’S ON
Apr 6th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

4/1/25: TOON, BLASTED
Mar 31st, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

3/31/25: WINDOWS ON THE PAST
Mar 30th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

3/28/25: DOME OF DOOM, 25 YEARS LATER
Mar 27th, 2025 by Clark Humphrey

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.

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