New musical on pioneering Black woman pilot; Boeing helps fund MAGA official’s reality show; US Supreme Court may ‘review’ WA Legislative districts; Starbucks makes major marketing mistake in S. Korea.

‘Lady Rainier’ statue, between I-5 and Sound Transit yard; UW researchers wanted to ‘train AI’ on preschoolers; GOP wants to stack WA high court against ‘millionaires tax;’ UW stabbing suspect may have stalked another student.

Getting Vonda N. McIntyre’s last novel published; remembering the slain trans UW student Juniper Blessing; Seattle schools top national scores (as a whole); happy Cascadia (Mount St. Helens) Day!

Lori Matsukawa’s new memoir; LGBTQ folks fleeing to WA from TX, other red states; UW stabbing victim remembered as her alleged slayer turns himself in; GOP group wants judge to throw out Legislative district map.

Bill Nye honored at Madame Tussauds NYC; new teachers’-union head accused of abusing student; WA Legislative, Supreme Court races to watch; Seattle Times print edition gets even smaller.

May Day rally/march draws thousands; Ezell’s Chicken talks of going national; bicyclist who struck a car in a ‘protected bike lane’ gets big city payout; Ooh! Ooh! Meanie mayor talks non-reverently about the rich!

Black Film Fest is here; two Silicon Valley moguls rumored to each want the Seahawks; Councilmembers propose ban on new in-city data centers; multiple stabbings at Tacoma’s Foss High.

Group bike ride as performance art; UW student arrested for drumming near Turning Point event; judge blocks WA law regulating sheriffs; the stark truth behind the Supreme Court’s latest horror.

Photog captures new life in long-logged forests; Homelessness Authority can’t find $13 million; Starbucks staffers worry over company’s future in Seattle; parents rally to prevent school closures.

Ex-Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur’s memoir; Bothell cops accused of anti-Asian violence in massage-parlor raids; candy maker Brown & Haley merges with China firm; Starbucks to open big Nashville office.

More on David Lewis’s book ‘The Burning of Moses Seattle;’ far-right men’s group to hold rally at the Gorge; Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe splitting up; civilian crisis responders don’t like SPOG restrictions on their work.

Punk Rock Flea Market makes the UK papers; Naomi Ishisaka’s FB account hacked, she gets blamed for results; ladders, catwalks ordered taken out of Gas Works Park; Black queer couple makes ‘Seattle’s best latte.’

Daughter looks back at father’s WWII internment; soaring fuel prices and their victims; downtown visitors up to 2019 levels, workers still behind; lawsuit targets Boeing for ‘off the clock’ duties.

NBA says Sonics coming back (in two years, maybe); developers, politicians talk of ‘rolling back’ MHA rules; REI workers urge anniversary-sale boycott; county assessor charged with violating protection order.

Ancient Native ‘forest gardens’ in BC; Kraken owners make moves to bid on new Sonics franchise; WA sues USDA over ‘unlawful demands;’ why a local cement plant burns a million tires a year (and wants to burn more).