Tales of an early Seattle madam aren’t all true but still helped save Pioneer Square; another possible Boeing scandal; missing evidence in the Bertha tunnel lawsuit; even the STEM world needs the humanities.

A creepy police surveillance tower at a supermarket; SeaTac mobile-home defenders reach a settlement; a Boeing shareholder’s lawsuit; how we’re not the only place with a homeless crisis and why we don’t realize it.

A legendary local sci-fi author dies; a suburban teen apologizes for a racist message; there’s another Sawant challenger; tracing the years-old roots of the 737 MAX crisis.

Creating a new visual representation for an old oral language; Books to Prisoners might get effectively banned; standoff at Nickelsville tiny-house sites continues; is the 737 crisis due to ‘cheap government’?

An ‘alpine coaster’ may come to Leavenworth; the FBI joins the 737 MAX probe; Nicklesville’s removed from running three tiny-house villages; KOMO’s homeless doc gets bashed some more.

Howard Schultz’s local campaign kickoff and its discontents; don’t look but the non-Viadoom’s over; facing ‘casual’ racism at Roosevelt HS; can drinking red wine help you lose weight?

For the 33rd year, what will become “Yay” and “Meh” over the next twelve months.

Red pandas temporarily escape their zoo enclosure; state Supreme Court OKs youth-jail funding; black hotel guest proves he’s a paid guest, gets kicked out anyway.

A classic Chinese restaurant closes; remembering journalist Rick Anderson and soccer coach Sigi Schmid; 12-step groups for tech addicts.

A big, privately-financed outdoor art installation; more earthquake fears; what the dead ICE jail inmate wrote to his lawyer; George Bush the First without tears.

Local artist revisits awful comics hero-sidekicks; Kim Schrier wins and other election fallout; was there never going to be a co-equal Amazon HQ?

Why I love the Short Run Comix/Art Expo; the latest Amazon HQ2 rumor (with a Larry King connection); what a ‘municipal bank’ would require; the two different kinds of ‘tiny houses’.

A new book maps out Seattle’s past and present; who’s a ‘local’ writer really?; lower-end rents keep soaring; a ‘Christian’ confidence scheme is busted.

Saving Beacon Hill’s Garden House; men talk about #MeToo; eviction horror stories; can the tech biz solve our region’s tech-biz-created problems?

The Storm closes out KeyArena in style; two more local arts-scene deaths; ‘Shout Your Abortion’ the book; what might really be behind Bezos’ philanthropic push.