A vital local mag meets an untimely end; thousands rally to defend the rule of law; a partial Ride the Ducks settlement’s announced; the Sounders run out of miracles.

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?

Partial election returns for a night of partial victories; are two Amazon HQ2s good for Seattle?; was an immigrant deported for talking about his detention conditions?

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’.

Making Dungeons & Dragons less mono-gendered; the death of a local jazz legend; prayers for healing and compassion at a Seattle synagogue; a bike-share company wants to add cars.

Local reactions to the Pittsburgh terror attack; how would you spend Bezos’ billions?; faulty light-rail escalators to be replaced (eventually); there might be plastic in your clams.

UPS returns to bike couriers (sort of); really dangerous volcanoes are right here; ex-Gov. Locke disputes Rossi’s ’03 budget claims; autumn truly arrives at long last.

South Park’s new pavement art; why our local taxes are so un-progressive; Sawant wants to revive the ‘head tax;’ a major NW art-scene figure dies.

Seattle’s 29 kinds of surveillance; anti-bike-lane saboteurs; Amazon (heart)s ICE; can hot rivers be cooled down to save salmon?

UW scientists’ ‘brain interface’; sorting out the new minimum-wage study; Bellevue PD chief cleared of assault claims; the ‘city that had too much money’ (not us).

Loving the Viaduct in its last months; state Supreme Court says kids shouldn’t get life in prison without parole; can a smartphone app help keep people off drugs?

Wing Luke Museum’s Asian American sci-fi art; a couple more Paul Allen bits; local trans activist fears returning to the US; more foster-care horror tales.

More Paul Allen punditry; #MeToo lands at Seattle’s premier black church; Inslee scoffs at oil ports on military lands; fewer opioid deaths in SnoCo.

One of Seattle’s (and the world’s) most prominent people passes. Also: KeyArena razing starts; more deliberate far-right violence; dams vs. orcas.

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.