More attacks on Pride Month art installations; ‘Sully’ speaks on the 737 MAX crisis; a new program invites techies to invest in affordable housing; turning water (very indirectly) into diamonds.

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.

Life with the downtown falcons; Jayapal shouts her abortion; Tacoma gives a novelist a park; Amazon says it does-so pay taxes.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s message of unity brings out the dividers; Ride the Ducks driver speaks out; judge rules against Eyman associates; what won’t help the homeless (or anybody).

Local artists’ political ‘gospel tracts’; Wedgwood bike lanes axed; did the feds sit on a 737 MAX fix?; remembering a gentle soul who loved drag, punk rock, and horror.

The City Council passes urban-village upzones; has KOMO joined the War on the Poor?; a middle-school riot; the White House wants to slash Hanford cleanup funds.

How will Boeing survive this crisis (or can it)?; the City Council’s final upzone vote nears; Huskies & Zags both choke in conference title games; Howard Schultz isn’t really ‘from the projects’.

Gov. Inslee’s White House run starts; a big Durkan/Sawant spat; Sound Transit funding’s still not safe; rents here aren’t rising AS fast as before.

Faiths come together to help out on the holiday; good news for (some) local fish stocks; hotel-worker protections shut down; what Boxing Day means to me.

Xmas thoughts as parts of Christendom implode on their own hypocrisy; more scary things to do with CGI; teacher disses online racist, gets threatened by the online racist’s fans.

“Torrey Pines” animator’s new project; abusive ex-priests sent to Spokane; Durkan’s new housing push; Redmond’s now more diverse than Seattle.

Local reactions to the Pittsburgh terror attack; how would you spend Bezos’ billions?; faulty light-rail escalators to be replaced (eventually); there might be plastic in your clams.

Loving the Viaduct in its last months; state Supreme Court says kids shouldn’t get life in prison without parole; can a smartphone app help keep people off drugs?

More people break business ties with David Meinert; more towers are planned for the U District; it’s not just “Bohemians” getting priced out of Seattle.

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?