Indigenous historian is a local Women’s History Month icon; SW WA extremist Joe Kent quits MAGA regime; Sound Transit hopes to trim rail-construction budgets; City Light faces possible future power shortages.

Another destructive windstorm; Legislature ends as ‘millionaires tax’ challenges start; Wilson changes mind, picks different new City Light boss; a couple of grim anniversaries this weekend.

Seattleite’s book on an obscure aspect of WWII; Seattle corporate lawyer is new state Supreme Court appointee; ex-city attorney Davison left over 5,000 unresolved cases; still more Starbucks store closures (most of them unionized).

Netflix doc on Eddie Vedder’s crusade vs. a rare disease; top local philanthropist (and staunch Israel defender) dies; Torrent sets a women’s-soccer attendance record; locals denounce new Iran war.

Tacoma Art Museum retrospective of a ‘trailblazing Black American painter;’ DOL’s ‘Spanish’ phone option really speaks English (with an accent); teen shoots up a pizza place; Wilson asks city departments to find potential budget cuts.

New play on Bruce Lee’s early years; Zahilay bans ICE from some King Co. property; review cites SPD’s ‘multiple failures’ at May anti-LGBTQ rally; Federal Way ousts council president who supported anti-ICE protests.

A million 12s (maybe) crowd the streets; we’re also one of the top protesting cities; is ‘millionaire tax’ bill being watered down to death?; ‘Cobain was murdered’ theory shows up again (sigh).

Seahawks’ spectacular win and fan’ celebrations; another ex-Microsoft exec named in Epstein files; ‘right wing ideologues’ speak against millionaire-tax bill; lots of WA trees are ‘dead or dying;’

Seahawks trounce 49ers in playoffs; heads of Social Housing Developer, City Light both fired; Seattle single-family rents up 20 percent; another fatal hookah-lounge shooting.

Play about ‘70s immigrant lives is all too relevant; Wilson, Ferguson won’t change ‘sanctuary’ policies despite White House threats; Wilson stops one sweep, lets another proceed; anti-ICE protesters disrupt City Council meeting.

Varsity Theater closing; Ferguson plugs millionaire tax and bashes MAGA regime; White House threatens all fed funding to ‘sanctuary’ cities and states; prosecutors won’t charge ex-Harrell aide after allegations of sexual assault.

Bruce Lee postage stamp announced; thousands (inc. Mayor Wilson) at Cal Anderson anti-ICE rally; Legislative session opens with money trouble; we’re all in a battle to preserve ‘the nation’s soul.’

Art by loved ones of the incarcerated; city buys Talaris property in Laurelhurst; Bush Garden reopening at new site after two-year delay; proposing a ‘180 degree turn’ approach to the climate crises.

Annual Sheraton ‘Gingerbread Village;’ feds sue state to get voter-registration data; Ferguson to submit ‘all-cuts budget;’ SPD killing near Othello station.

Ancient natural ‘abstract sculptures’ on display; DC shooting suspect’s Bellingham connection; state sues to stop SNAP cuts to lawful permanent residents; Alaska earthquake gets felt down here.