Artist Natasha Marin’s new message; the smokestorm’s emotional toll; another ICE-jail hunger strike; Amazon says Amazon warehouses are great workplaces.

We’ve again got the most noxious air in the world; King County settles teen solitary-confinement lawsuit; Seattle’s mega-growth may finally be slowing; did Metro order buses that can’t go up our steep hills?

The grandest Battery Street Tunnel idea yet; what Kim Schrier really said about WWII; a legal victory for the mentally ill; Third Avenue now bus-only; the Storm’s terrific season.

Starbucks’ ‘craziest’ idea yet; Portland police chief taunts antifa protesters; can bad air get carbon fee passed?; remembering Aretha Franklin.

Why those new apartment projects all look the same; second thoughts about upzoning; could we finally be getting less-filthy air?

Defaced public artwork replaced (multiple times); how to talk about our lousy air; Central Wash. U fires Matt Manweller; Felix Hernandez’s almost-comeback.

The Showbox is saved! (for now, pending possible litigation); more Sea-Tac hijack fallout; Carmen Best confirmed as police chief; an update on my next book.

Trying to understand the Sea-Tac plane theft/crash; Sub Pop brings fun back to music festivals; sick orca improving; almost 200 stars support saving the Showbox.

Pearl Jam’s ‘Home Shows’ raise $11 mill; competing plans to ‘save’ the Showbox emerge; orca-rescue drive continues; an architect defends the stalled downtown streetcar project.

The right-wing orchestrators of attacks on left-wing ‘thought police’; remembering Hiroshima (still); no big primary-election surprises; homelessness task force folds without doing much.

How Sub Pop triumphed; some places we wish weren’t demolished; Matt Manweller rants against #MeToo and ‘liberals’; David Meinert’s business world shrinks some more.

The ‘quietest place in America’ gets pretty noisy these days; a need for ‘ethnic-specific’ blood donors; 3D-printer gun plans kept offline for now.

‘Seattle Teriyaki’ comes to Philly; local food-wholesale empire sold off; new bike-share rules OK’d; Bitcoin mining via a video-game app.

‘Save the Showbox’ drive grows; burning toxic chemicals while they’re still in the ground; GOP politician uses brutal smear tactics (so what’s new?).

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?