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

David Shields’ Marshawn Lynch biopic; Seattle politics’ biggest ‘third rail’; King County’s new rules on deadly-force inquests; should lawmakers get to become instant lobbyists?

It sure took long enough but we may finally get more backyard cottages; another centrist City Council PAC emerges while ‘Washington Independents’ folds; why Seattle’s street grid isn’t a ‘disaster.’

Bush Garden lives!; the Showbox may live!; Seattle keeps growing (but more slowly); no, affordable housing can’t wait.

Comparing rival fashion-art exhibits; a historic restaurant space reopens; more measles-outbreak effects; 50 years of getting stuck in traffic on I-5.

A soft-acoustic Alice in Chains cover tune; judge rules the SPD’s in ‘partial non-compliance’ with reforms; more measles cases; a scheduled On the Boards performer is denied entry to the US.

Bill Nye explains climate change with funny props; big business has a city-council takeover plan; a legal win for backyard cottages; robots will pick apples and box up Amazon stuff.

Sea lions: threat or menace?; scooter-shares might finally come to Seattle; how a global criminal helped kill a Seattle restaurant; it’s too darn hot.

Bill Gates on US socialists; the water’s getting too loud for orcas; Durkan lauds homeless-camp ‘sweeps’; our first cute-animal pic in a long time.

(The link to a Boeing-related article in the newsletter was mis-given. Here’s the correct link.)

The El Corazon nightclub will indeed likely be razed (but not for a while); a Seattle Times reporter‘s accused of sending sexist texts; more 737 MAX revelations; local tech workers of India descent make a bilingual Seattle film.

Hardwick’s Swap Shop to close (really this time); crane victim’s family to sue; homeless numbers drop (maybe); the boats that evoke a pre-techie Seattle.

What (little) we know about the deadly crane crash; Legislators try really hard to finish on time; the city gets more time to save the Showbox; a venerable downtown diner’s possible last days.

A once and potentially-future cinema; another (interim) Bob Ferguson courtroom win; Municipal Court Judge Ed McKenna refutes bias claims; our local air is really bad (sometimes).

A Seattle writer’s tribute to a pre-surrealist Vancouver photographer; the city’s top judge is accused of biased sentencing; Boeing’s financial bad news; Northgate’s lonely last days.

Boeing Field gets new passenger service (but no more ICE deportations); ‘a tale of two Boeing factories’; Amazon sellers and workers talk about their struggles; Seattle’s next-to-last video store may close.