Sports New Seattle semi-pro league takes a swing at baseball's lack of diversity Good news, sports fans. Seattle is about to get more baseball. This summer the GOOD Neighbor League was announced, a plan for eight semi-professional teams focused in southeast Seattle neighborhoods. Casey Martin
Business Downtown Seattle office values are dropping like overripe plums. That's not all bad In the Seattle metro area, the market price for a place to attempt to concentrate on your work while colleagues talk loudly near your desk is dropping significantly. Eastside, don't get cocky - it's happening there too. Joshua McNichols
Hundreds in Seattle become U.S. citizens on Independence Day Hundreds of people in Seattle woke up this morning not as immigrants, but as newly minted U.S. citizens. The annual naturalization ceremony was held at Seattle Center on July 4 — Independence Day. Casey Martin
Food Off the Charts: Hosting a (small) Fourth of July barbecue could set you back almost $200 this year KUOW pulled prices for various barbecue staples from four grocery stores within city limits (two Safeways and two QFCs) and averaged them together to get a better sense of barbecue costs this summer. Teo Popescu
Get ready, Seattle. Summer '24 is about to bring the heat Western Washington is bracing for potentially record-breaking heat this weekend. While that might sou Eilís O'Neill Stephen Howie
Law & Courts 21,000 Washingtonians to get payout from lawsuit over fake plastic surgery reviews A Seattle-area plastic surgery business and its owner have agreed to a $5 million settlement in a federal lawsuit that charged the company with coercing patients into providing falsified online reviews to help boost its reputation. Diana Opong
Law & Courts Does the US Supreme Court ruling on public camping bans criminalize homelessness? The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that cities can ban camping and sleeping in public, even if there is no shelter to send them to, overturning a previous ruling that has guided cities' approaches to homelessness for years. Kate Walters Dyer Oxley
Off the Charts: Downtown Seattle is working from home. What about your neighborhood? In some Seattle neighborhoods, driving to work has been replaced by working from home or walking to work, but that trend doesn't hold across the city. Teo Popescu
Government For many families with disabilities, few Seattle playgrounds feel meant for them Ann Dornfeld
