Local ‘meme artist’ pranks future historians; feds take aim at WA home-ownership program; César Chavez’s name taken off a local park; waiting for the Sonics comeback vote.

Non-‘mystical’ 20th century NW art at SAM; Wilson pauses new police CCTV cams (but keeps current ones on); backlash against light-rail expansion cutbacks; ICE detains asylum seekers on questionable grounds.

Cancer patient/counselor’s sidewalk ‘pep talk library;’ Dick’s Drive Ins workers’ class-action suit; Metro driver in ‘medical crisis’ crashes into seven vehicles; reconsidering Cesar Chavez.

Indigenous historian is a local Women’s History Month icon; SW WA extremist Joe Kent quits MAGA regime; Sound Transit hopes to trim rail-construction budgets; City Light faces possible future power shortages.

New film based (sort-of) on a true Seattle story; Spokane pastor’s Islamophobic preaching on tour; Wilson pauses city use of AI tech; greater downtown’s now got over 100,000 residents.

One-day winter wonderland; Seattle Center wants big bond measure; REI cuts benefits, new-employees’ pay; feds want man to pay $1.8 million for not self-deporting.

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.

New arts space opened by two ‘immigrants from Tehran;’ ‘millionaires tax’ awaits Ferguson’s signature (as Howard Schultz decamps for Florida); Iran won’t play World Cup match set for Seattle.

Art exhibits portray Black women, power, and wisdom; ‘millionaire tax’ passes WA House after 24-hour debate; Starbucks union fights latest closure plans; big Boeing deal to sell smart bombs to Israel.

Seattleite’s book on an obscure aspect of WWII; Seattle corporate lawyer is new state Supreme Court appointee; ex-city attorney Davison left over 5,000 unresolved cases; still more Starbucks store closures (most of them unionized).

Group swimming in the winter cold; ‘millionaire tax’ foes accused of padding their numbers; staff call for city civil-rights boss’s removal; area preachers denounce the notion of ‘MAGA Christianity.’

Cold-war closeted gays at Seattle Opera; Legislature Dems’ competing budget plans; a brutal, fatal shooting on Capitol Hill; nonprofit housing sold to for-profit companies that harass tenants to force ‘em out.

Desktop-publishing mogul Paul Brainerd RIP; ICE arrested over 2,000 in WA last year; ‘millionaire tax’ bill includes a big corporate tax break; Mariners are back, but will your TV service get them?

Site-specific installations at a soon-to-be-razed home; Seahawks for sale after all; GOP procedural trick dooms many Legislature bills for this year; buying a home inside a video game (what could be more fun?).

Bruce Lee ‘forever stamp’ launching; Wilson’s ‘State of the City’ focuses on affordability, safety; debunking conservative claims against ‘millionaire tax;’ we could use someone like Jesse Jackson these days.