Seattle novelist contrasts Chinese, American lives; more ‘No Kings’ protest fallout; Martin Selig loses more properties; ‘living comfortably’ here costs even more this year.

Huge ‘No Kings’ protest crowds here and nationally; ICE removals cause empty seats at graduations; more 787 India crash fallout; bee-colony collapse threatens WA crops.

Terry Morgan’s all-around arts production career; Harrell wants to streamline OK’ing new developments; state agencies prepare for major cuts; resistance actions in the streets and on the air.

Vietnamese refugee tailor’s family saga; anti-ICE protesters block Fed Building garage exit; County Council wants assessor John Wilson to quit; Seattle’s now more ‘male skewing’ than Anchorage!

Tour of old Pioneer Square gay haunts; appeals court in Seattle weighs birthright-citizenship order; Seattle U officially absorbs Cornish College; even rich people aren’t buying houses these days.

Local doc on historic ‘70s gay disco; Ferguson slams DC regime’s ‘assault on the US Constitution;’ feds may drop charges against Boeing in 737 MAX crashes; Elijah Lewis’s killer sentenced.

Recalling the Riot Grrrl ‘revolution;’ Seattle judge nixes order to allow 12,ooo refugees; CVS wants to buy (at least some) Bartell Drug stores; Seattle/Eastside light rail opening delayed again.

Rally defends suspended UW activists; ICE spying on Spokane immigration activist; Bill Gates plans to donate his fortune, wind down Gates Foundation in 20 years; the all-American (and apparently anti-MAGA) new pope.

Tessa Hulls’ graphic novel ‘Feeding Ghosts’ wins Pulitzer; state sues feds over massive HHS cuts; Rite Aid/Bartell returns to bankruptcy; pro-Palestinian UW students take over engineering building.

Tariqa Waters’ SAM solo show explores yesterday’s tomorrow; study says we’re ‘overdue’ for a ‘big one’ earthquake; feds to ‘investigate’ WA allowing trans school athletes; a May Day call to action.

More protests here, around US; state Sen. Bill Ramos suddenly dies, as state budget moves go on; FBI questions Oak Harbor punk band over ‘anti fascist’ lyrics.

Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe’s current crusades; Chris Reykdal blasts RFK Jr.’s lies about autism; judge says feds must give back UW student’s visa; Ferguson blasts Legislative Dems’ tax plan, offers no alternative.

Massive anti-MAGA/DOGE rallies in Seattle, elsewhere; another WA lawsuit to save research funding; melting ice bringing more whales to the Arctic; Storm legend Sue Bird named to Basketball Hall of Fame.

Lidia Yuknavitch’s second (sort-of) memoir; Gold Rush museum could close in selloff of federal properties; tariffs are already hurting many NW businesses; marking five years since the COVID era’s real start.

Classic-toys exhibit comes to Tacoma; another anti-MAGA rally today; another accusation about Harrell’s time in Iowa in ’96; Ken Stringfellow has new record, still refutes sexual-misconduct claims.