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Each week on The Newsfeed, host Paris Jackson and a team of veteran journalists dive deep into one topic and provide impactful reporting, interviews and community insights from sources you can trust. Each day this week, this post will be updated with a new story from the team. For the last few weeks, we’ve been asking people we’ve met in the course of our other reporting for The Newsfeed about AI, to get a sense of how they’re interacting with the tools, and hear their concerns and hopes for them.

Editor’s Note: The following article contains descriptions of physical injury and sexual assault that some readers may find difficult. In early 2023, rideshare driver Mahamadou Kabba turned on his apps and waited for a ride in south Seattle. Instead, he was caught in the crossfire of two others and shot. His wife, Khadija Mohamed, was out of the country when she received the call. She traveled for 24 hours to get back, and when she got to his side in the hospital, he was already unresponsive.

Never underestimate the impact of a high-school art class — it might just blossom into a 33-year career. In 1978, at age 12, Maria Cristalli moved with her family from California to Mercer Island. Once enrolled at Mercer Island High School, she took a pivotal jewelry-making class with art teacher Laurie Hall (now a jeweler in Portland).

Hey ya’ll, Just like that: we are back to school. Well, maybe. If you live in Seattle, you know that there is currently the threat of a teacher strike that would delay the start of school. By the time you read this, we will know whether school is starting on September 2nd. This story is adapted from the Out & Back newsletter. If you’re not a subscriber, you can sign up here.

When Camas Logue was a kid, he told his grandmother he was planning to be an artist, a doctor and the pope. “She was Catholic,” he says with a laugh, “so I think maybe I was trying to impress her.” He ended up being right about one out of three. A painter, wood carver, basket weaver and printmaker, Logue is also a drummer in the band Black Belt Eagle Scout. With this multidisciplinary multitude of options, our Art by Northwest profile focuses on Logue’s paintings.

In my next life, I’ll be a personal travel concierge (and work in a TV writer’s room and be on SNL and be a lady of leisure with a roller rink and staffed pizza parlor in my basement). I am a P-L-A-N-N-E-R —  I love discovering fun, quirky, delicious, beautiful places and experiences around the world, and sharing my recommendations with folks who are headed there next. This story is adapted from The Nosh with Rachel Belle newsletter. If you’re not a subscriber, you can sign up here.

Each week on The Newsfeed, host Paris Jackson and a team of veteran journalists dive deep into one topic and provide impactful reporting, interviews and community insights from sources you can trust. Each day this week, this post will be updated with a new story from the team. Story published 08/24/2026 Washington State Secretary of State Steve Hobbs shares important election reminders ahead of November.

Spend a few days with sculptor Aisha Harrison and you may start to feel your scalp sprouting branches. Working primarily in clay, the artist creates captivating figures that blur the boundary between human and nature. Thickly visceral, the sculptures make you hyperaware of your own body and the bones beneath.

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Hi friends, If you follow me on Instagram (which you should!), you would know that I’ve been training hard for an upcoming race. I haven’t yet revealed it publicly, so you are hearing it here first: I am excited to be training for the NYC marathon this fall!  This will be my 6th NYC marathon and 8th marathon overall, but the first where I feel, so far, like I’m really going to crush it. This story is adapted from the Out & Back newsletter. If you’re not a subscriber, you can sign up here.