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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.