RFK Jr.’s spam texts to Bill Nye; ‘improved survey method’ means higher homeless count; Tacoma school shooting injures one student; Amazon CEO predicts AI will cost more corporate jobs.

Seattle novelist contrasts Chinese, American lives; more ‘No Kings’ protest fallout; Martin Selig loses more properties; ‘living comfortably’ here costs even more this year.

Huge ‘No Kings’ protest crowds here and nationally; ICE removals cause empty seats at graduations; more 787 India crash fallout; bee-colony collapse threatens WA crops.

Terry Morgan’s all-around arts production career; Harrell wants to streamline OK’ing new developments; state agencies prepare for major cuts; resistance actions in the streets and on the air.

Cory Doctorow on online monopolists; Redhook BrewLab closing; Roosevelt football broke recruitment rules; anti-ICE protesters return in big numbers to Federal Bldg. as officials and others prepare for bigger rallies Saturday.

Vietnamese refugee tailor’s family saga; anti-ICE protesters block Fed Building garage exit; County Council wants assessor John Wilson to quit; Seattle’s now more ‘male skewing’ than Anchorage!

New book on old NW serial killers; Sen. Murray exhorts us to fight back against MAGA; state studies potential slavery reparations; ‘Belltown Hellcat’ driver found guilty.

Tour of old Pioneer Square gay haunts; appeals court in Seattle weighs birthright-citizenship order; Seattle U officially absorbs Cornish College; even rich people aren’t buying houses these days.

What the CHOP/CHAZ protests did/didn’t accomplish; bill to loosen City Council ethics rules dropped; local lawmakers visit ICE jail; KC deputy accused of raping teen Explorers member.

Graphic novel of gay Asians in Seattle; Filipina UW lab tech ordered released by ICE; MS foresees AI changing the whole Internet; county assessor Wilson asked to resign after restraining order.

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.

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.

Recalling the Riot Grrrl ‘revolution;’ Seattle judge nixes order to allow 12,ooo refugees; CVS wants to buy (at least some) Bartell Drug stores; Seattle/Eastside light rail opening delayed again.

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.

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.