Operation Nightwatch’s executive director recalls struggles past and present; possible delays in another Boeing jet program; City Council races turn ‘nasty’; should Seattle be more like Minneapolis (without all the ice)?

Northgate’s end days continue; where should surplus soda-tax money go?; more sewage leaks close more beaches; sellers of past-date food to discount groceries are convicted.

An anarchist protester is shot (perhaps wanting to be) outside the ICE jail; a mild earthquake shakes things up; MS backs off from a new corporate-software pricing plan; would Rapinoe accept an Inslee cabinet post?

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.

Sue Bird defends partner Megan Rapinoe’s honor; judge nixes a plan to keep asylum seekers jailed indefinitely; Durkan had, but didn’t submit, an alternate DADU deregulation plan; Joe Biden seems to think Seattle just discovered gay rights.

Vancouver store tries and fails to embarrass customers; Nick Hanauer starts a PAC for progressive Council hopefuls; an old medical office building will be a ‘Museum of Museums’; Twitter accuses an anti-racist author of racist imagery.

Bush Garden lives!; the Showbox may live!; Seattle keeps growing (but more slowly); no, affordable housing can’t wait.

Remembering the Chinese railroad builders 150 years later; Boeing says it’s got a 737 MAX fix ready; why Puget Sound’s orange in spots; another Mt. St. Helens anniversary.

Bill Nye explains climate change with funny props; big business has a city-council takeover plan; a legal win for backyard cottages; robots will pick apples and box up Amazon stuff.

Bill Gates on US socialists; the water’s getting too loud for orcas; Durkan lauds homeless-camp ‘sweeps’; our first cute-animal pic in a long time.

(The link to a Boeing-related article in the newsletter was mis-given. Here’s the correct link.)

Local May Day events stayed on-message (sorry, news media); the yearly SIFF onslaught approaches; more hate-talk from Matt Shea; is this any way to teach science?

What (little) we know about the deadly crane crash; Legislators try really hard to finish on time; the city gets more time to save the Showbox; a venerable downtown diner’s possible last days.

A once and potentially-future cinema; another (interim) Bob Ferguson courtroom win; Municipal Court Judge Ed McKenna refutes bias claims; our local air is really bad (sometimes).

A new mark of desperation: shoplifting Goodwill; the new arena will take longer and cost more; former co-mayor (sorta) Bob Royer dies; the meaning of Saturday’s unofficial holiday.

Everett’s getting upscaled; a School Board member wants on the City Council; ICE agents stalk WA courthouses; guess what town’s now more diverse than Seattle?