Another old church building may go away; still more head-tax talk; the real cost to solve the homeless crisis is massive; the Lummi Tribe wants an aquarium orca back.

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.

Nestlé joins Starbucks (partly); protesting an NY bank’s Canadian oil investment in Seattle; Mike O’Brien removed from a Nordic Museum after-party.

Bruce Lee’s Seattle days; calling Amazon’s bluff and other head-tax reactions; restaurant bills complaining about having to pay living wages.

Nordic Museum’s big new debut; Cinco de Mayo’s new meaning; more head-tax and public-hearing-screamers fallout; Ichiro gets kicked upstairs.

Amazon threatens to slow local growth as if we should fear that; shouters take over a head-tax hearing; a Spokane teacher’s truth-to-power moment.

A peaceful, pro-social May Day; Daniel Ramirez wins in court (for now); the newest threat to local salmon; the tragedy behind Rachel Dolezal’s story.

Connecting the early UK female punks to the Oly riot grrrls; counting every native plant and animal here; what’s certain to happen on May Day.

Big cell-service merger ‘On’ again; Seahawks’ new twin stars; Durkan kicks out neighborhoods czar; a different kind of ‘apple authorized reseller.’

Erotic art becomes a resistance act; an initiative would force a quick fix to state tax unfairness; ride shares are now more popular than taxis.

The problem with having fewer trees in traditionally minority neighborhoods; a new ‘reality’ show features an area bikini barista stand; the SPD gets its first inspector general.

What a white woman got wrong about a black woman’s experience; an Ed Murray associate’s own past scandal; Rep. Jayapal says “we failed.”

Head-tax supporters thrown out of City Council hearing; the opioid crisis’s costs (hidden and other); a state initiative aims to keep teens away from AR-15s; should the NFL have cheer squads anymore?

Ballard ‘spite house’ lives!; deadly-force law gets un-amended; head tax proposal’s introduced; a better ‘role’ for a certain DC insider?

Where businesses (heart) the Seattle “head tax” idea; growing veggies in a giant warehouse; a big dispute over a small-town festival.