Blob World

• Transit Blobs Strike Over Proposal to Make Them Roll Uphill Both Ways Management describes the route change as 'topologically ambitious.' The union describes it as 'impossible.' Marguerite Doughsworth
• Weather Service Forecasts 'Mild, With a Chance of Being Rolled' Residents in low-lying districts are advised to anchor themselves before nightfall. Wren Halloway

Politics

• Parliament Adjourns Third Day Running After Members Roll Out of Chamber Leadership blamed the newly waxed floors. The opposition blamed the leadership. A committee will be formed to blame someone else. Marguerite Doughsworth

Business

• Crumb Shortage Enters Fourth Week as Officials Urge Calm, Then Leave Town The Ministry of Supply says reserves are 'adequate.' It has not said adequate for what, or for how long. Ansel Batterby
• Housing Market Cools Slightly After Everyone Notices the Houses Are Also Round Buyers report difficulty in placing furniture, and in placing themselves. Ansel Batterby

Science

• Great Blob Telescope Detects Nothing at All, Which Scientists Call Their Best Result Yet After nine years and considerable expense, the array has confirmed that a specific region of sky contains no crumbs whatsoever. Dr. Ivo Pellucid

Culture

• Baker of the Year Award Given, for Eleventh Time, to the Same Extremely Round Blob Judges cited 'consistency.' Rivals cited 'the judging panel being three of his cousins.' Prue Sanderling

Opinion

• We Are All Round, and Pretending Otherwise Is Making Us Miserable The cult of the angular has gone far enough. Cordelia Vance
• The Crumb Panic Is Not About Crumbs It never was. It is about who gets to decide when there is enough of anything. Elias Rundle

The Bakery

• Bakery Standards Board Rules That a Crumb Is Whatever It Says a Crumb Is The seven-year review concludes with a definition that critics say is circular, and which the board says is therefore very stable. Prue Sanderling
• Municipal Ovens Ran Four Degrees Cool for Eleven Years, Audit Finds Nobody noticed. Officials say this proves the system works. Ansel Batterby

Surveillance

• City Installs Cameras That Watch Only for Crumbs, Insists This Is Different Officials stress the system cannot identify individual blobs — only what those blobs are holding, where, and for how long. Wren Halloway

Corrections

• Corrections and Clarifications Errors in recent editions, and the record set straight. The Standards Desk

Crumb Puzzles

• The Weekly Crumb: Puzzle No. 412 This week's arrangement problem, plus the solution to last week's, which several readers dispute. The Puzzles Desk

Editorials

• The Crumb We Cannot See The Board of Editors on the surveillance question, and why the answer is not simply more cameras. The Editorial Board

Letters

• Letters: On Roundness, Ovens, and the Price of a Crumb Readers respond to last week's coverage. Letters have been edited for length. Letters Desk

Guest Blobs

• I Was a Crumb Inspector for Thirty Years. We Were Never Counting Crumbs. A guest essay on what the inspection service actually measured, and who asked for it. Hollis Danforth

Style

• The Sash Is Back, and It Means Something Different Now Once the mark of high office, the ceremonial sash has been adopted by blobs with no office at all. Prue Sanderling