A map of Seattle’s weirdest places; still more family-separation backlash; Seattle Symphony’s VR push; crime fear vs. reality.

More reaction against ICE child-taking; a personal collection of slavery artifacts; bringing the (beautiful) sea lamprey back to local waters.

An instant rally for immigrant families; one lesson from Fremont Solstice; an inflatable cow’s watery trek; are ‘tiny house villages’ the best we can do?

Harsh police treatment for a bus-fare scofflaw; yet more head-tax complications; Death Cab on a Bezos-era Seattle; the royal wedding preacher’s lessons for us.

Still more post-head-tax punditry; local rents go down a little; Rep. Jayapal wants ICE family-separations stopped; the Storm’s ex-coach dies.

Head tax dies, homeless crisis lives on; a horrid wildfire forecast; a drive to let states create single-payer health plans; freeze pops with booze.

Seattle ‘head tax’ dies after one month; farmers vs. tariffs; tribes win culverts-vs.-salmon suit; city could hire private bus operators.

Supporting the mothers of ICE-‘removed’ children; why there’s still no homelessness solution; why celeb suicides affect people so deeply.

A birthday for this e-missive (and its maker); various Seattles that might have been; ICE mothers jailed here; peacocks vs. cars in BC.

Street deaths remembered; why anti-homelessness efforts can seem futile; local ‘scarf dancer’ accused of groping; making the case for making the 797 here.

Protesting the immigrant crackdowns; Mexico imposes apple-import tariffs; Randy Revele RIP; more things that aren’t fun any more.

Starbucks boss Howard Schultz’s second retirement; the Mariners’ amazing season (thus far); a local ditty named the ‘best song of 1998’; Dr. Hubert Locke RIP.

A transgender activist’s Twitter complaint; more homeless-stats fallout; Microsoft buying GitHub?; how not to convince me of something.

A park’s disappearing viewpoint; parsing the latest homeless stats; a union win for Boeing’s S. Carolina workers; a bomb threat staged as a YouTube stunt.

Drag protesters at Amazon’s shareholder meeting; Durkan’s big new shelter plan; LCD license plates and their discontents; harassment claims against ex-UW track coach.