UW prof’s book disses the AI hype; ICE detains another Filipino green-card holder; pro-Palestinian demonstrators try to disrupt Microsoft event; Seattle violent crime now at lowest rate in years.

Cabaret show on late strip-club mogul; advocates want at least a quasi-indie ‘Cascadia’ nation; WA ‘ birthright citizenship’ case goes to Supreme Court; class-action suit filed over Nordstrom buyout deal.

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.

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.

Video reassures those with ‘Tesla Regret Syndrome,’ while stunters put fake Bezos message on crosswalk buttons; FAA scrutinized over 737 MAX incident oversight; who’ll be King Co.’s second temp-exec?

‘Fat Mall’ popup shop; why progressive experts say protesting isn’t futile; state workers march on Capitol grounds against layoff threats; my new book’s first (rave) review!

The landscape-healing power of gophers; local reactions to tariff-mania; legislators seek a response to Ferguson’s tax-aversion; High Dive music venue moving to larger space after 20 years, while an art gallery takes over a seafood warehouse.

Chinese-American musician/activist compares anti-authoritarian struggles; new US tariffs could wreck WA’s economy; Amazon wants to buy TikTok; Legislature’s wealth-tax plan draws an unexpected advocate.

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.

Woodland Park Zoo to build ‘forest habitat;’ farmworker-rights activist held by ICE; Emerald Downs horse-racing track might close; councilmembers wants to dis ‘defunding the police’ as if it had happened.

Pacific Science Center deteriorating, in debt; Council approves Sodo ‘Makers District;’ state budget projections get even worse; Cantwell files bill to end a legal excuse for deportations.

Doc about old Rainier ads now showing; White House goes after Perkins Coie law firm; JBLM soldiers accused of selling military secrets; car fatally hits preteen outside Washington Middle School.

The latest MISCmedia book (possibly the best yet); how tariffs will hurt big & small business & everybody; state joins lawsuit over federal job cuts; suspect in USPS worker’s murder apparently kills self.