Durkan sez now’s the time to build the city we want; Alaska Air’s inherited lawsuit; one fewer City Council candidate; Oregon could let 16-year-olds vote.

Neighbours dance club’s building sold; Bruce Harrell to leave the City Council; Inslee wants public-option health care; Mounties trash BC pipeline blockades.

“Torrey Pines” animator’s new project; abusive ex-priests sent to Spokane; Durkan’s new housing push; Redmond’s now more diverse than Seattle.

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.

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).

A ‘non-binary,’ oft-cross-dressing YouTube star; viaduct’s death date announced; Safeco Field subsidy OK’d; my new book’s already a hit.

A local bookselling legend dies; M’s get most of the county $ they wanted; Showbox landlord sues; Bernie Sanders introduces ‘Stop B.E.Z.O.S. Act’.

A bike-share firm that may or may not be leaving town; one person who supports razing the Showbox; an ‘answer’ video to the police lip-sync spectacle.

An art photographer takes on black glam; a racist attack on Burien’s mayor; sacrificing golf for housing?; an online troll’s tragic offline life; defending libraries from stupidity.

LGBTQ paraders for immigrant rights; jackets for those who DO care; a guy claims women’s brains aren’t built for coding; publishers gaming Amazon via “book stuffing.”

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

A transgender activist’s Twitter complaint; more homeless-stats fallout; Microsoft buying GitHub?; how not to convince me of something.

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.