In one of our biggest newsletters to date: Sounders FC doesn’t like fans’ giant anti-fascist flag; WA’s 1st woman (and gay) House speaker; obviously faked pix on City Council campaign mailers; Inslee’s last (presidential campaign) stand?

A cartoon with a local star spins a positive vision of Native life; the T-Mobile/Sprint deal moves ahead; Amazon’s talked with ICE about selling facial-recognition software; the limits of Seattle smugness.

Landmine-sniffing rodents in Tacoma; City Council OK’s a soda-tax-specific fund; NW trees are drying up and dying out; UW gets a big grant to fight disinformation.

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.

Shorty’s loses its longtime space but stays alive; KCTS/Crosscut workers want a union; is ICE using WA driver’s-license pics?; Eyman’s latest initiative fizzles.

An underwhelming locally-made movie; a Hanford facility’s dangerous decay; a Boeing union official’s stern diagnosis about the company culture; another Megan Rapinoe triumph.

A MAD-dening announcement; Children’s Hospital ORs reopen; what’s not in Seattle Schools’ new native-history curriculum; the southern resident orcas aren’t where they should be.

A holiday special edition, explaining some of this newsletter’s sometimes-obscure references.

David Meinert to buy the Mecca Cafe; local co. to buy Sports Illustrated; onetime immigrant-detention advocate’s in town; Amazon talks back to more critics.

Neko Case misses the old Ballard; the Mariners’ freefall continues; another big encampment sweep and its discontents; who’s afraid of 5G cell signals?

David Shields’ Marshawn Lynch biopic; Seattle politics’ biggest ‘third rail’; King County’s new rules on deadly-force inquests; should lawmakers get to become instant lobbyists?

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

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.

The El Corazon nightclub will indeed likely be razed (but not for a while); a Seattle Times reporter‘s accused of sending sexist texts; more 737 MAX revelations; local tech workers of India descent make a bilingual Seattle film.

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?