The ‘Twin Peaks’ high school’s held its last class; a downtown hotel’s been finished for two years without opening; the World Wide Web’s birthplace tries to divorce from Microsoft; KING loses another local-news legend.

Top NW pop foods; top (current) NW pop music acts; Sawant’s campaign raises major bucks; Howard Schultz’s campaign hits a pause.

Bruce Pavitt’s cheap-food memories; this humble li’l e-missive’s fourth birthday; a rights dispute over a classic Seattle novel; Bush Garden’s ex-owner doesn’t want its building saved.

Xbox-branded grooming products are announced; the Showbox-preservation drive wins another round; Inslee’s climate-debate proposal’s spurned (thus giving him more PR); thoughts about D-Day 75 years after.

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

Remembering a local performance legend; this year’s official homeless count is down; yet another 737 problem; why Seattle (heart)s business so much.

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

A gathering to fight the abortion bans; a local-music legend’s latest battle; another big DSHS neglect settlement; another big 737 MAX lawsuit.

A soft-acoustic Alice in Chains cover tune; judge rules the SPD’s in ‘partial non-compliance’ with reforms; more measles cases; a scheduled On the Boards performer is denied entry to the US.

Bill Gates on US socialists; the water’s getting too loud for orcas; Durkan lauds homeless-camp ‘sweeps’; our first cute-animal pic in a long time.

(The link to a Boeing-related article in the newsletter was mis-given. Here’s the correct link.)

Inside Microsoft’s big cloud-computing control center; rumors of a Showbox deal as two other old nightclubs become threatened; WA’s economic output breaks a half-trillion; ‘surgical tourism’ hits Seattle.

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.

A once and potentially-future cinema; another (interim) Bob Ferguson courtroom win; Municipal Court Judge Ed McKenna refutes bias claims; our local air is really bad (sometimes).

Boeing Field gets new passenger service (but no more ICE deportations); ‘a tale of two Boeing factories’; Amazon sellers and workers talk about their struggles; Seattle’s next-to-last video store may close.

Brandi Carlile and friend hold a surprise early-morning street show; a legislator disses nurses, nurses respond bigtime; Rep. Matt Shea ‘jokes’ in online chats about spying on liberals; Sounder FC’s first loss of the season.