Making room for light-rail tracks next to I-5; Russell Wilson gets a big pay raise; the Legislature sprints to the finish; two newspaper wakes, a decade (and a month) apart.

Creating a new visual representation for an old oral language; Books to Prisoners might get effectively banned; standoff at Nickelsville tiny-house sites continues; is the 737 crisis due to ‘cheap government’?

The women behind many early video games; a possible cause for the 737 MAX crashes; what is and isn’t still alive in Olympia; still missing the P-I after 10 years.

Newly-found film of the ‘Galloping Gertie’ bridge collapse; Inslee could announce for Prez Friday; GOP lawmakers hate sex-ed and Seattle; what’ll Amazon pull out of next?

Remembering ‘Seattle Weekly’ as it leaves the stands; the city’s rezoning scheme inches closer; GOP Legislators want Fremont’s Lenin statue gone; UW men’s b-ball makes the national Top 25.

UW dental faculty denounce budget cuts; we’ll know today about NHL in Seattle; judge’s police-reform questions; state tenant-rights bill coming.

A vital local mag meets an untimely end; thousands rally to defend the rule of law; a partial Ride the Ducks settlement’s announced; the Sounders run out of miracles.

Seattle’s historic (and beautiful) Labor Temple is apparently doomed; another Showbox reprieve (for now); more GOP dirty election tricks; my Halloween costume picks.

Remembering Sicks’ Stadium and Washington Mutual Bank; more Durkan-budget details; ‘disaster status’ for western salmon fisheries; opioid traces may have been found in shellfish.

A musical mash-up of Morrissey and workout-DVD reviews (!); the Storm’s righteous total triumph; detained immigrant youth at risk of abuse; local tourism biz deals with shutoff of public ad money.

Seattle Times loses at ‘monopoly’; area traffic’s about to get (and stay) even worse; Amy Siskind will speak here after all; we’ll have KeyArena a bit longer.

A big tribute to a local art master; Sinclair Broadcasting’s historic precedent; new Seattle Schools head; ‘congestion pricing’ for downtown driving?

Mayor stalls (but doesn’t stop) a transit project; racism and (offline) ‘social networks’; Trans Visibility Day; tribes sue state to save salmon.

Trying to bring back the old waterfront trolleys; where women in Seattle do and don’t rule; squeezing more units into old apartment buildings.

In your big weekend e-mailer: Pix of ’80s local punkdom; another step for KeyArena deal; ‘Sanctuary City’ in action; how do Nazis differ from those who just talk and act like ’em?