Songstress Julie Cascioppo’s new memoir; WA says it won’t feed private voter info to feds; why so many people hate expanding SPD’s surveillance-cam network; an ex-Microsoft exec’s in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘birthday book.’

Tomo Nakayama’s song of optimism; western governors form vax partnership; fed oversight of SPD officially ends; don’t expect the ‘Prize Patrol’ to come knocking any time soon.

PAX West and the business of play; AI’s real threat isn’t what ‘AI doomers’ claim; officials vow to keep Sound Transit projects funded; could Boeing be prosecuted over 737 MAX disasters?

Rallies for ‘Workers Over Billionaires;’ other protesters don’t give homophobes the martyrdom they want; deportation flights now hiding their identity; some subsidized apts. now cost more than some market-rate units.

Starbucks/Redhook/Seattle Weekly cofounder Gordon Bowker RIP; how right-wing preacher Sean Feucht capitalizes on Seattle-bashing; how to keep federal troops off our streets; coding careers are even more male-dominated these days.

Singing together for the fun of it; ICE arrests activist during citizenship hearing; Rendezvous in Belltown suddenly closes; local COVID rates highest in a year.

Lynda V. Mapes launches book praising old forests; Ferguson keeps defending WA’s immigration policies; two more Fred Meyer stores (one in Seattle) closing; KING to be absorbed into the biggest TV station group ever.

Props, puppets, street theater defending Denny Blaine Park nudity; state sues feds over lost climate funding; was Mercer Island teacher’s abuse covered up?; violent crime down in Seattle (and DC), despite right-wing claims.

Late photojournalist’s son displays his works in new prints; WA state employee held by ICE in Texas; Katie Wilson has majority vote for mayor; no, Pacific Place’s plight isn’t downtown-Seattle-specific.

Lloyd Center adds the ‘Portland weird;’ Katie Wilson’s lead for mayor widens; state cites landlords under new rent-cap law; how Microsoft helps Israel’s surveillance program.

‘Performative male’ contest on Capitol Hill; TB cases allegedly spreading at Tacoma ICE jail; did Costco secretly share customers’ Rx info?

Glass art pieces strewn about W. Seattle; city sues feds over discriminatory executive orders; Microsoft’s stock value rises above $4 trillion; more probable arsons in the south end.

Local filmmaker’s Tokyo-shot feature; appeals court in Seattle upholds ‘birthright citizenship’ ruling; councilmembers stall renters’ commission appointments; MS says Chinese government’s employing SharePoint hackers.

Ichiro retrospective exhibit at MOHAI; right-wing cancel culture targets public media; gasoline-truck spill imperils Pt. Angeles water supply; is city inspector general deleting/altering public records?

Iranian-American woman’s very personal performance piece; ICE releases four kids, keeps their mother; big city workers’ union backs Katie Wilson for mayor; Microsoft’s former top lawyer dies.