Mayor Katie Wilson has appointed Zahoor Ahmed — a career hotel-finance executive who has chaired the boards of Visit Seattle, the Downtown Seattle Association, and the Washington Hospitality Association — to the public board that governs the convention center. The council confirmed him nine to zero on July 14.

The convention center's new safety hub is nearly open — and it turns out there was nothing to hide.

The contempt for AI "slop" is earned — but aimed at the wrong thing. The problem was never that a machine helped; it's whether the work punches up, is sourced one claim at a time, signed, checkable, and disclosed for a reason.

EVENT RAP freestyled the commons argument at the Arch. The op-ed landed in The Urbanist. And a GeekWire piece from Sammamish asks a question that lands closer to home than it looks.