An instant rally for immigrant families; one lesson from Fremont Solstice; an inflatable cow’s watery trek; are ‘tiny house villages’ the best we can do?

Harsh police treatment for a bus-fare scofflaw; yet more head-tax complications; Death Cab on a Bezos-era Seattle; the royal wedding preacher’s lessons for us.

A birthday for this e-missive (and its maker); various Seattles that might have been; ICE mothers jailed here; peacocks vs. cars in BC.

Street deaths remembered; why anti-homelessness efforts can seem futile; local ‘scarf dancer’ accused of groping; making the case for making the 797 here.

Protesting the immigrant crackdowns; Mexico imposes apple-import tariffs; Randy Revele RIP; more things that aren’t fun any more.

Starbucks boss Howard Schultz’s second retirement; the Mariners’ amazing season (thus far); a local ditty named the ‘best song of 1998’; Dr. Hubert Locke RIP.

A park’s disappearing viewpoint; parsing the latest homeless stats; a union win for Boeing’s S. Carolina workers; a bomb threat staged as a YouTube stunt.

Drag protesters at Amazon’s shareholder meeting; Durkan’s big new shelter plan; LCD license plates and their discontents; harassment claims against ex-UW track coach.

A ‘genderless’ fashion model; police chief Carmen Best’s defenders; a family shelter gets its first permanent space; backyard homes as a nascent ‘cottage’ industry.

Where the parts of torn-down buildings go; questioning Amazon’s shelter donations; making tech less evil; opioids getting into local shellfish.

Still more public-works budgets busted; Seattle and the ‘dream of the ’90s’; the cost of Sawant’s city-printed rally posters; a new apt. complex in the wrong colors.

In our big weekend missive: ‘Gender-fluid’ teen’s prom experience makes the NYT; 38 years since St. Helens; ‘two two-minute statements’ explaining the housing crisis; scads of event listings.

Nestlé joins Starbucks (partly); protesting an NY bank’s Canadian oil investment in Seattle; Mike O’Brien removed from a Nordic Museum after-party.

Bruce Lee’s Seattle days; calling Amazon’s bluff and other head-tax reactions; restaurant bills complaining about having to pay living wages.

Amazon threatens to slow local growth as if we should fear that; shouters take over a head-tax hearing; a Spokane teacher’s truth-to-power moment.