Tesla Motors settles with the artist it ripped off; memories of pioneer Seattle (including the bad parts); another local TV station maybe for sale; are we at a ‘tipping point’ in the local real-estate boom?

Carmen Best named permanent police chief; Mariners play big roles in the All Star Game; local air quality gets worse; more youth-jail opponents come forward.

Local politicians denounce SCOTUS’ blow to unions (and Democratic campaigns); Boeing’s ‘hypersonic’ dream; Bellevue’s robo-vanpool dream.

Luxury apartment glut; immigrant mothers sue the feds; parking-space stickers going away; a parody/nadir in the bottled water craze.

The lost art of the courtroom sketch; Bob Ferguson’s latest crusade against the feds; out-of-state online sales tax likely won’t hurt Amazon.

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

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

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.

Flags will alert boaters to nearby orcas; DACA stories from the Yakima Valley; a school-shooting video game denounced; what head-tax opponents could do instead.

Art installations describe life in a lonesome town; the McKinsey report’s non-non-existence; Seattle’s ‘whiteness problem’; the usual scads of weekend events.

Anti-head-tax campaign begins with big funding; kayakers vs. pipeline redux; Susan Hutchison redux; Seattle’s not immune to hate-talk after all.

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.

Head-tax haters keep hating; Robinson Cano caught ‘using’; Cosmic Crisp apple PR blitz just beginning; what progressives can say they’re for.

‘Rubber Chicken Museum’ opens; Mayor Durkan wants to slash head-tax proposal; King County sues global oil giants; thoughts about motherhood and chaos.

Relics from a Catholic saint visit Seattle on tour; Knights of Columbus Club building’s for sale; Microsoft’s new-found morality; Ms pitcher James Paxton’s no-no in TO.