Caffe Vita workers fired or quit over a new policy on homeless giving; did Boeing quash a preventive MAX fix to save money?; Melinda Gates vows $1B to fight the gender gap; Morrissey concert scrapped.

That local ad jingle you still can’t forget; is bus riding really that dangerous? (a driver says no); addressing built-in bias in school gifted programs; how ‘tree rustlers’ allegedly started a big wildfire.

Seattle’s oldest department store will close next year; Beth’s Cafe (but not its building) is for sale; Mariners’ season ends; a UW prof tells why tech execs are all positive all the time.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal on why impeachment’s time is now; the private ICE jail in Tacoma tries ‘rebranding’; more on how Boeing’s 737 MAX mess likely started from the top down; Microsoft’s original Redmond buildings have been razed.

A big airline’s sudden demise isn’t the worst of Boeing’s problems; a UW report exposes ICE atrocities; automation threatens a whole lot of WA jobs; a Seattle high school cuts history to save STEM.

Locals make a kung fu comedy film their own way; Sounders FC tries to make nice with anti-fascist fans; a minimum wage for rideshare drivers; Seattle’s hottest new restaurant (OOPS: already closed).

Venerable music-dance club’s building’s for sale; Gates details past meetings w/Jeffrey Epstein; Columbia River barges are stuck behind a broken dam lock; 18 Years After.

Microsoft interns revive an obscure music sub-genre; Amazon workers plan a climate walkout; Frances Bean Cobain designs Kurt-sploitation clothes; ‘blue’ people DO live in ‘red’ counties.

Big lightning, heavy rain, and really late football; Iron Maiden singer disses Tacoma Dome guards; MS exec wants more gov’t oversight of tech giants; Howard Schultz’s officially not running for president.

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.

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.

Lorena Gonzalez runs for state Attorney General; ‘Never Again Is Now’ rally fails to impress ICE’s local landlord (a Holocaust survivor); citizen commission rejects Durkan’s latest police-reform plan; Melinda Gates wants gender equality this century.

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.

Remembering two giants of Seattle visual art; more Showbox landmarking details; another big-money City Council PAC; is Sea-Tac Airport lying about its age?