AEG wants out of running Bumbershoot; outdoor-wear maven Gert Boyle dies; the Snoqualmie Tribe buys Salish Lodge and nearby lands; our long local political trudge is almost over.

The cost of hatchery salmon (and hence of dams); Starbucks to host voter events; UW College Republicans lose their charter; long live Dia de los Muertos.

A giant corn-maze map of WA; a senator wants Boeing’s CEO to quit; NYT notes Amazon’s local campaign $; author lauds Hanford whistleblowers.

Boeing CEO’s contrition to Congress; Sounders go to their third title game in four years; Pioneer Square buildings to get way-gentrified; a tiny-home-village turf war apparently ends badly for all.

Women’s sports and the continuing fight for equity and respect; police chief Best’s (possibly taking-sides) Tweet; Muilenberg goes to Congress; wanna buy a geoduck (not enough do)?

The new Sea Mar Museum showcases NW Latinx heritage; Sawant gets Council colleagues’ support; ICE is detaining kids in a “secret” southwest WA facility; Microsoft gets that big Pentagon cloud contract instead of Amazon.

More fallout from Amazon’s big political bucks; Egan Orion explains his egg-donor ad; Indonesia blames Boeing (partly) for the first MAX crash; one development will have 1,000 apartments and a Trader Joe’s.

Recalling civic booster Jim Ellis’s career and crusades; Boeing earnings tumble; Kshama Sawant writes in Teen Vogue; the volunteers in a trailer who help the people just released from the ICE jail.

A BC Sikh leftist may be Canada’s next ‘kingmaker’; area rivers are flooding early and big; a big Boeing exec shuffle; Ferguson fights to keep federal clean-water rules.

MoPOP celebrates Minecraft’s lo-res play power; did a City Council hopeful once post a strange egg-donor ad?; Boeing tries to explain the unearthed MAX-pilot texts; Brandi Carlile won’t be at the same ‘Powerful Women Summit’ with the ex-Homeland Security chief.

A Wing Luke Museum exhibit explores Asian Americans and the ‘beauty myth’; anti-Sawant flyers sent to other councilmembers’ districts; Amazon’s not the only big PAC money source; someone at Boeing knew the MAX had troubles.

Pics of climate change’s regional results; don’t be afraid of the ‘Big Dark’; a big judgment in the Mercer crane crash; Cooke Aquaculture’s damaged fish farm to reopen.

A puppet salmon’s sermon about driving less; could Amazon be broken up and survive?; a UK family has its own tale of mistreatment by US border officers; the Mariners are now in sole possession of a major baseball record.

A Tacoma mag tries to spark new interest in both Tacoma and print media; Dow Constantine slams back against an ICE PR offensive; a big gas leak hits the U District; feeling broke on $100,000 a year.

A rally to stop shootings; a task force blames both Boeing, FAA for letting the MAX fly; math isn’t racist but the way it’s taught can be; so much housing being built around here, so little of it ‘affordable.’