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!

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.

Last weekend of Wild Waves water park; Macklemore proclaims ‘Free Palestine’ at NJ stadium concert; politicians join pickets at hotel workers’ strike; three fatal shootings in same vicinity, in less than 24 hours.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

New Netflix doc on Boeing whistleblowers; cars coming back on Pike Place (some days); Amazon AI lab caught buying, destroying rare books; Olympic Peninsula forest bought, saved from logging.

Wilson gets SPD chief Barnes to resign; appeals court rules in favor of ICE detainees; tech giants taking on ‘mountain of debt’ with AI spending; Storm co-owner fined, suspended over interaction with transphobe rally goers.

Local geology prof co-hosting PBS miniseries; ‘ghost gun’ found at Sunday shooting site; feds ‘investigating’ local high-school Pride display; what millionaires-tax repeal proponents don’t want you to know.

An illegal parachute jump from Space Needle; a fatal mass shooting nearby two days later; protests meet Erika Kirk at a right-wing Kirkland church; hundreds celebrate Jimothy in Ballard.

Roberta Gregory’s ‘Bitchy!’ comix collection; Council nixes free school lunches for all; ICE still accessing WA driver’s-license data; two ex-Dem governors bashing ‘tax and spend’ as if they were Republicans.

New local hero ‘Jimothy’ gets his own video game; trans woman from TX ‘moved here to survive;’ report pans ‘overcrowded’ WA youth-prison system; current WA wildfires burn over 160 square miles.

AI ‘time traveler’ vlogs from ‘grunge’ era; farm worker self-deports, leaving family behind; ‘high earners tax is working, despite whining from big business;’ Everett suit claims ‘decades’ of youth-detention sex abuse.