Ex-local filmmaker’s hype-free take on AI; ‘cheering’ Supreme Court’s mail-voting decision; new local business-booster group launches; Macklemore fired from Ed Sheeran tour for pro-Palestinian stance.

Jaipur Lit Fest’s local ‘microcosm;’ downtown crime’s down 50 percent in 8 years (yes!); Embassy Suites hotel strike finally ends; Jimothy makes the Sunday NYT front page!

Play about sisters who refuse to be fat-shamed; Wilson has plans to correct ‘sluggish’ local economy; why Seattle should finally stop acting inferior; Seahawks eke out a win despite losing QB Sam Darnold.

Local painter’s ‘macro’ lo-res images; camping trip ends with five ICE arrests; Seattle has more kids these days, many other cities have fewer; Seahawks return (for real) tonight, while national media still underestimates ‘em.

Local novelist’s version of old Jamaica (with treachery and ‘witch houses’); shelter builder Pallet folds; Ferguson aims to help victims of Medicaid cuts; I-90 light rail electric lines are apparently ‘zapping’ fish.

‘Inconvenience Store’ artist-products installation at an ex 7-Eleven; election officials warn of mail delays; details of Seattle teachers’ tentative contact deal; César Chávez Park renamed ‘Parque Libertad.’

Late-model Mazda found at bottom of Ship Canal; potential teachers’ strike still looms, while state workers stage one-day walkout; remembering the guy from my high school who got a World Series ring.

Celebrating Dolly Parton on Capitol Hill; Bellevue Square, adjacent properties for sale; Seattle teachers’ strike deadline nears; ICE flights from Boeing Field escalate.

Meet West Seattle’s ‘beaver detective;’ Seattle teachers authorize strike if contract talks fail; WA sues to stop new mail-ballot restrictions; Bill Gates calls for ‘a tax on AI automated systems.’

WA State Book Award nominees include a ‘Dumb Birds Field Guide;’ court blocks federal retaliations against King County; another sexual harassment suit against an SPD officer; city, world say ‘Goodbye Dolly.’

B’ham author on a Korea-to-US mass adoption operation; punitive tariffs against Canada will hit hard in WA; wildfires here are far from done; yes, we want an NBA team in Seattle, but not at Portland’s expense.

Author Rasheena Fountain melds environmentalism, blues; Canada tariffs’ potential local impact; over 50 new wildfires start around the Northwest; Microsoft tops list of corporate ‘tax avoiders.’

Frye exhibit on ‘impermanence;’ Matt Calkins goes from Seattle Times to right-wing podcast; Wilson dismisses Chamber of Commerce polls dissing her; Starbucks fires workers who won’t move to Nashville.

‘What the Funk?!’ burlesque fest is back; Wilson recall drive goes to court; Chamber of Commerce poll says folks want CCTV cams, activists disagree; Uber Eats paying $4.4M in gig-worker settlement.

Nonprofit roller rink opens in an ex-Bartell’s; White House wants to end ‘roadless rule’ in National Forests; Costco to offer Medicare Advantage plans; visiting one of the 56 (so far) data centers near the Gorge.