Xbox-branded grooming products are announced; the Showbox-preservation drive wins another round; Inslee’s climate-debate proposal’s spurned (thus giving him more PR); thoughts about D-Day 75 years after.

Is liquified natural gas a step toward cleaner energy or just more of the same?; Amazon shareholder proposals fall; Inslee’s first big veto of 2019; how the alt-Right seeks an ‘insider’ presence in Seattle.

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.

Viaduct destruction continues; still more anti-‘Seattle Is Dying’ counter-arguments; Mariners become human again; Durkan defends immigrants (and defends defending them).

We may get another hot, dry, fire-laden summer; Northgate’s de-malling is well underway; who Amazon will put in its new Bellevue buildings; Seattle Times closing Bothell printing plant.

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.

Remembering a Monkee; the cost of getting toxic wood out of the sound; rent control progresses in OR; an update on our big-little fund drive.

‘Slushmageddon’ arrives and makes a huge mess; viaduct demolition to finally start; school-bond ballots due today; Inslee’s ‘folksy’ national image-making.

The lovely/deadly snow remains and grows; why the Enquirer went after Bezos (maybe); Starbucks’ cofounder speaks out about Schultz; Beth’s Cafe is threatened by the usual local threat.

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

Downtown protesters target Chase’s Trans-Mountain Pipeline role; Bumbershoot was lonely this year; will Bremerton get a Quincy Jones town square?; how to properly describe Amazon.

Inslee’s presidential hopes get clearer; Jeff Bezos goes to ‘South Park’; a local trial focuses on the rights of kids in immigration court; ‘the Hitler analogy’ gets a modern-day update.

Whose land are we really on?

Is climate change already inevitable?

Why is autumn air so wonderful?

Artist Natasha Marin’s new message; the smokestorm’s emotional toll; another ICE-jail hunger strike; Amazon says Amazon warehouses are great workplaces.

Local company’s gender-neutral undies; Manweller report made public; bringing techies into the civic discussion; We Can Breathe Again!