Obscure Seattle painter buys ad space at NYC subway stops; WA wins court fight to keep fed funding for wind power; tech visas’ role in area population growth; did MS unfairly exaggerate AI hype to pump stock price?

Seattle history-vignette series now all streaming; city closing Aurora side streets; Steve Ballmer to fund 10,000 affordable housing units; extremist Idaho preacher intends to ‘take over’ an eastern WA town.

Memoir by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil; the World Cup’s here (along with more ICE agents); WA sues feds over demands for voter lists; Benihana to open where Hooters used to be.

WA State Ferries at 75; White House wants to axe federal agency investigating Longview blast; did Sound Transit board members ‘screw Seattle’ in their latest cuts?; a call for an independent Cascadia.

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.

1969 ‘People’s Wall’ in ‘landmarking’ process; shelter expansion progresses in City Council; Sound Transit chair proposes delaying rail to Ballard; remembering Ted Turner (and the Goodwill Games).

Kim Fu’s novel of ghosts, memories, and rain; ‘nearby gunfire’ disrupts Wilson speech; ‘Magic: the Gathering’ online game creators say they’ve unionized; drive to dissolve Homelessness Authority begins.

Photo book on Seattle streets and struggles; Proud Boys leader from WA gets Jan. 6 conviction erased; state jobless rate rises again; Princess Angeline, reluctant local celebrity.

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.’

Doc explores tragic 2018 SeaTac ‘joyride flight;’ state GOP wants more voting restrictions; builders want city MHA regulations eased; Seattle’s budget, economy still in a ‘precarious and chaotic place.’

Canadian costumed alt-music duo’s video a hit for KEXP; Wilson to ‘go bigger’ on housing, density; old Garfield High scandal/tragedy revisited; is White House ‘dismantling’ Forest Service?

Another, even bigger, ‘No Kings’ rally/march; light rail finally crosses Lake Washington; farmers feel pain from war-inflated fuel, fertilizer prices; folk-pop singer turned talk-TV host Dick Foley RIP.

UW Quad cherry blossoms lit up one night only; will ICE agents show up to take TSA duties at Sea-Tac?; Zags, UW women, Seattle U ousted from b-ball tourneys; CBS Radio abruptly killed at age 99.

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.

Longtime, still-living leaders for local Native rights; Ferguson says he’ll sign ‘millionaires tax;’ 5th Ave. Theatre, Pacific Science Center lay off workers; Starbucks closing another unionized store.