Georgetown Records’ got a southern sister store; Seattle teachers OK a new contract deal; there’s a big lawsuit over big City Light bills; some local Domino’s outlets now ship pizzas by e-bike (only).

Elizabeth Warren gives a speech to Seattle’s not-necessarily-wealthy; a ‘spirit of Seattle’ defense of city-run golf courses; there’s a tentative teachers’ contract; the Wall St. Journal finds lotsa ‘banned or mislabeled’ stuff from Amazon Marketplace sellers.

Behind the suddenly famous ‘Salmon Cannon’; a dump truck crashes into a Subway shop; the Inslee campaign’s next do-or-die deadline; how should the county spend $318 million for school kids?

Lime-E bike batteries go ‘kapow’; more neo-fascist BS in Portland; Amazon pays warehouse workers to say things aren’t really so bad there; other cities don’t want to be the ‘Next Seattle’ after all.

Nordstrom leaves an emptying-out Northgate; a bus driver’s lovely ‘Ode to Aurora;’ feds try to discredit a climate-related UW study; there’s too much of the wrong kind of salmon.

A giant, complex deal for the city-owned Mercer tract; more primary-election fallout; a China trade war could devastate Washington farmers; FedEx Ground says goodbye to Amazon.

In another massive e-missive: Death Cab’s tribute to young pipeline-blast victims; charges in a different kind of cyber-theft; no more ‘dress-coding’ in Seattle schools; Amazon’s Dash gets ditched.

Landmine-sniffing rodents in Tacoma; City Council OK’s a soda-tax-specific fund; NW trees are drying up and dying out; UW gets a big grant to fight disinformation.

An anarchist protester is shot (perhaps wanting to be) outside the ICE jail; a mild earthquake shakes things up; MS backs off from a new corporate-software pricing plan; would Rapinoe accept an Inslee cabinet post?

Seattle inventors make a hi-tech fake coffee; other inventors make safer but costlier helmets for high school football; a sad tragedy on Pine Street; is King County helping ICE after promising not to?

Sue Bird defends partner Megan Rapinoe’s honor; judge nixes a plan to keep asylum seekers jailed indefinitely; Durkan had, but didn’t submit, an alternate DADU deregulation plan; Joe Biden seems to think Seattle just discovered gay rights.

The long-stalled backyard-cottage bill FINALLY passes; using high-tech sensors to help orcas and salmon; John Oliver and others rant about Amazon; I rant (briefly) about social media.

Art made from Viaduct scraps; a big human-caused sewage spill; the KC Labor Council has a new City Council fave; what rising sea levels may cost Washington state.

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

Neko Case misses the old Ballard; the Mariners’ freefall continues; another big encampment sweep and its discontents; who’s afraid of 5G cell signals?