Flags will alert boaters to nearby orcas; DACA stories from the Yakima Valley; a school-shooting video game denounced; what head-tax opponents could do instead.

Art installations describe life in a lonesome town; the McKinsey report’s non-non-existence; Seattle’s ‘whiteness problem’; the usual scads of weekend events.

Where the parts of torn-down buildings go; questioning Amazon’s shelter donations; making tech less evil; opioids getting into local shellfish.

Still more public-works budgets busted; Seattle and the ‘dream of the ’90s’; the cost of Sawant’s city-printed rally posters; a new apt. complex in the wrong colors.

Parts of town where population’s declining (!); KOMO copter-crash settlement; Bill Nye vs. anti-eco politicians; homelessness as public health crisis.

Anti-head-tax campaign begins with big funding; kayakers vs. pipeline redux; Susan Hutchison redux; Seattle’s not immune to hate-talk after all.

Seattle’s got big plans for a post-Viaduct waterfront—if property owners don’t balk at the cost; SIFF gets more female (but the software biz doesn’t); head-tax talk goes on and on.

Head-tax haters keep hating; Robinson Cano caught ‘using’; Cosmic Crisp apple PR blitz just beginning; what progressives can say they’re for.

‘Rubber Chicken Museum’ opens; Mayor Durkan wants to slash head-tax proposal; King County sues global oil giants; thoughts about motherhood and chaos.

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.