Seattle’s oldest department store will close next year; Beth’s Cafe (but not its building) is for sale; Mariners’ season ends; a UW prof tells why tech execs are all positive all the time.

Tula’s Jazz Club shutters; Intiman Theatre might not be saved after all; more new (weird) Amazon Echo/Alexa products are introduced; can we wish away the “tech bro”?

Rep. Pramila Jayapal on why impeachment’s time is now; the private ICE jail in Tacoma tries ‘rebranding’; more on how Boeing’s 737 MAX mess likely started from the top down; Microsoft’s original Redmond buildings have been razed.

A big airline’s sudden demise isn’t the worst of Boeing’s problems; a UW report exposes ICE atrocities; automation threatens a whole lot of WA jobs; a Seattle high school cuts history to save STEM.

Techies, teens, and others rally for climate action; anti-Amazon outfit’s non-‘grassroots’; union votes ‘no confidence’ in Seattle school-lunch boss; Bartell Drugs will close one greater-downtown store but open another.

Lime Pod car shares are going away; an SPD officer sues over PCB exposure at a homeless-camp cleanup; FAA chief tests the 737 MAX software fix; Bezos’ pledge to buy lots of electric vans won’t keep many of his workers away from today’s Climate Strike.

A new novel depicts the early WA logging scene; Dow Constantine wants more films made here; ‘bronze birch borer’ beetles feast on our trees; you say ‘micromobility,’ I say ‘bikes.’

A new art zine profiles a prolific street artist; the WWII origins of Sounders fans’ anti-fascist anthem; Bauhaus Coffee returns to Capitol Hill; is ‘The Far Side’ coming back?

Locals make a kung fu comedy film their own way; Sounders FC tries to make nice with anti-fascist fans; a minimum wage for rideshare drivers; Seattle’s hottest new restaurant (OOPS: already closed).

Climate change gets dreadful serious in Alaska; Nick Hanauer links corporate greed to sociopathy; Tim Eyman’s in still more trouble; deadly-force-inquest reform talks may have hit an impasse; a hurt but still-cute owl gets some TLC.

Drone pix capture Tacoma’s beauty (yes!); $450,000 to a City Light harassment whistleblower; tunnels for light rail would cost way more than bridges; our kelp needs our help.

Where a national article on Seattle destinations doesn’t tell folks to go; recalling the first attempted Boeing takeover; a local case of thwarted justice becomes a miniseries; I’m crowdfunding again.

Venerable music-dance club’s building’s for sale; Gates details past meetings w/Jeffrey Epstein; Columbia River barges are stuck behind a broken dam lock; 18 Years After.

Microsoft interns revive an obscure music sub-genre; Amazon workers plan a climate walkout; Frances Bean Cobain designs Kurt-sploitation clothes; ‘blue’ people DO live in ‘red’ counties.

Big lightning, heavy rain, and really late football; Iron Maiden singer disses Tacoma Dome guards; MS exec wants more gov’t oversight of tech giants; Howard Schultz’s officially not running for president.