Baseball-lit legend Jim Bouton dies; the city seeks more time for SPD reforms; Burke-Gilman Trail’s ‘missing link’ still missing; mapping the locations of environmental-health hazards.

The long-stalled backyard-cottage bill FINALLY passes; using high-tech sensors to help orcas and salmon; John Oliver and others rant about Amazon; I rant (briefly) about social media.

An art installation for the Northwest’s new “fifth season”; Durkan (hearts) Amazon, presidential candidates don’t; BC can’t get rid of its trash; thousands of e-books sold by Microsoft will become unreadable.

A local jazz legend’s legacy; soccer star Megan Rapinoe takes no BS; NYT finds counterfeit-book sellers on Amazon; can local youth homelessness really be ended?

Grounded 737s are being stored wherever they can go; Apple will occupy the old KING-TV block; baristas stage a labor walkout; replacing food banks with ‘community pantries.’

Life with the downtown falcons; Jayapal shouts her abortion; Tacoma gives a novelist a park; Amazon says it does-so pay taxes.

Bruce Pavitt’s cheap-food memories; this humble li’l e-missive’s fourth birthday; a rights dispute over a classic Seattle novel; Bush Garden’s ex-owner doesn’t want its building saved.

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.