AI bot-written ebooks land (briefly) on an Amazon bestseller list; the would-be Obama bomber’s a Republican from Pasco; ex-Rep. Dave Reichert’s running for governor; still another Bartell Drugs location’s closing.

Author David Neiwert’s tales of NW extremism past & present; Rite Aid’s closing another Bartell’s; Seattle population nears 800,000; Rep. Jayapal’s stalker sentenced.

An extensive article (in USA Today of all places) on Elijah Lewis’s life and sudden death; why Pride is about ‘joy’ as part of resistance; WA could get another bad wildfire season; beefs with (and within) a homelessness advisory board.

Don’t think Seattle Pride ’23 wasn’t about all the anti-LGBTQ threats; R Place building to become another dance club; Carmen Best won’t discuss her 2020 actions; what the Russian maybe-coup-attempt was or wasn’t about.

Bringing the music of pre-Soviet Ukraine into the digital age; judge says city can’t ban anti-police chalk-art slogans; it now takes twice the minimum wage to afford a Seattle apartment; a better way to think of AI chatbots.

Queer artist group of Pacific Island descent has a show at Wing Luke; there’ll be one fewer ‘affordable’ apt. building on Capitol Hill; historic schooner to be dismantled in Everett; Harrell names group to draft revised ‘new war on drugs’ bill.

Connecting Native American spirituality and ‘MST3K;’ City Council may try another ‘new war on drugs’ bill; Portland passes ‘daytime camping’ ban; Apple’s forthcoming VR headset: threat or menace?

Several angles on Aurora Avenue (past, present, future); hundreds walk out of Amazon offices; Burien encampment sweep looms despite county disapproval; more allegations against ex-state equity office head Karen A. Johnson.

Indigenous artist paints an Alaska Airlines plane; Seattle population’s growing again; a new federal program hopes to help solve homelessness here and in five other places; happy (day after) Mt. St. Helens Day.

Thomas A. Doyle nixes a TAD reunion; Alberta wildfire smoke drifts here; new condo tower cuts prices 30 percent; COVID aid programs as an ‘experiment in single-payer care.’

Theater and art examples of why diversity’s not a frill; new state drug bill passed in one day; Homelessness Authority CEO Mark Dones quits; drive for a big new regional airport’s dead for now.

New book semi-fictionalizes Sacajawea and her journey; Kraken come THIS close to moving on in playoffs; Legislators say they have a drug-bill deal; David Brewster disses diversity in the arts as a mere frill.

Seahawks use AI art prompts to make promo imagery; doctors fleeing post-Roe Idaho; Kraken in another playoff Game 7; what should be the CInerama’s new name?

SIFF to reopen (and rename) the Cinerama; Metro’s dropping more routes; we just had a really bad flu season; gay men can donate blood again.

Club-night promoters try for ‘safer space’ policy; Chinatown-Intl. District declared ‘endangered;’ Weyerhaeuser HQ workers told to come back on-site; what might be behind the big supermarket-takeover plan.