Since the All-Star Games have come and gone, and all the homeless have returned to the area around the stadia in south downtown Seattle, we have the usual summer reports.  The Capitol Hill Block Party was going on recently, and it had its usual amount of mayhem.  In case you were not aware, Capitol Hill is a sort of Freak City, with a higher than other places number of tattoos, piercings, green hair, and homosexuals in evidence.  There’s the story of the unruly crowd in that neighborhood blocking police from stopping an illegal street-racing event.  And our local Jason Rantz has a story of the pitiful police presence around the city, due to seriously depleted ranks and a sickout.

Rantz also reports on the results of the DemocRat drug legalization program-overdose deaths, imagine that!  And, due to the rise in retail theft and other crime, the Bartell’s Drug Store chain has announced its fourth store closure in Seattle.   There is a report out that finds that traffic in downtown Seattle has not yet returned to pre-pandemic-restriction levels.  See above two stories for a clue as to why that might be.

And a nice story on Twitter by Jonathan Choe.  Anyone there should follow this guy, his stories are priceless!

A Really Big Story is the one about the teenagers in Seattle being arrested for Human Trafficking and other crimes, around the All-Star Game.  Yes, that is correct, young people are now doing the trafficking of even younger kids.  This is quite horrific!  But Jason Rantz did a good story on the state legislator who almost single-handedly passed the state law that allows teenagers to get “gender-affirming care” without parental permission or notification.  This story is about his defense of a woman who had a third-trimester abortion.

South of Tacoma in the town of Lakewood, the city is “on edge” as car prowls skyrocket, showing that the problems are not just confined to Seattle.

And a slight ray of a weak sort of hope, there are three positions on the Seattle city council that are up for grabs this year, and for perhaps the first time, there are candidates that are not far-left or communist in the running.  People are actually talking about the council’s policies as being the cause of all the added crime, homelessness, and general destruction around the city.

Amid all the trash going on, it is still possible, however, to have a nice evening in a local park, listening to chamber musicians from the Seattle Chamber Music Festival.  This happy, relaxed crowd heard some excellent music last Saturday.