Defaced public artwork replaced (multiple times); how to talk about our lousy air; Central Wash. U fires Matt Manweller; Felix Hernandez’s almost-comeback.

Seattle Art Fair postmortem; did Portland cops take sides at Patriot Prayer rally?; Bellevue police chief put on leave; how not to hire the homeless.

A bike-share firm that may or may not be leaving town; one person who supports razing the Showbox; an ‘answer’ video to the police lip-sync spectacle.

Tesla Motors settles with the artist it ripped off; memories of pioneer Seattle (including the bad parts); another local TV station maybe for sale; are we at a ‘tipping point’ in the local real-estate boom?

An art photographer takes on black glam; a racist attack on Burien’s mayor; sacrificing golf for housing?; an online troll’s tragic offline life; defending libraries from stupidity.

Fake land-use signs for imaginary developments; Olympia’s not the worst town for jobs after all; seven separated refugee kids are detained in WA; could climate change kill the Internet?

Carmen Best named permanent police chief; Mariners play big roles in the All Star Game; local air quality gets worse; more youth-jail opponents come forward.

Imagining a doll on a mission to save the world; big Shepard Fairey banner at an Amazon bldg.; game firms rethink harassment policies; the heat goes on.

Another grand U District church building’s about to go away; a beloved local worker’s taken by ICE agents; is Seattle real estate crash-bound, or is that just wishful thinking?

Quotes from the SeaTac immigrant-rights rally; another threat to salmon (and hence orcas); where’s the mystery pop machine?

A Harlan Ellison memory; Jayapal arrested at DC protest; the SPD ‘mass exodus’ that isn’t; Tacoma beats Seattle (at something not good).

Travel Ban court ruling denounced; Maru Mora Villalpando gets a legal reprieve; Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe, and the almost-naked truth.

Luxury apartment glut; immigrant mothers sue the feds; parking-space stickers going away; a parody/nadir in the bottled water craze.

LGBTQ paraders for immigrant rights; jackets for those who DO care; a guy claims women’s brains aren’t built for coding; publishers gaming Amazon via “book stuffing.”

The lost art of the courtroom sketch; Bob Ferguson’s latest crusade against the feds; out-of-state online sales tax likely won’t hurt Amazon.