The Mariners’ stadium gets a new name; Durkan names two new dept. heads; car-share companies merge; the mass-child-detention horror continues.

A big, privately-financed outdoor art installation; more earthquake fears; what the dead ICE jail inmate wrote to his lawyer; George Bush the First without tears.

A new book maps out Seattle’s past and present; who’s a ‘local’ writer really?; lower-end rents keep soaring; a ‘Christian’ confidence scheme is busted.

The Storm closes out KeyArena in style; two more local arts-scene deaths; ‘Shout Your Abortion’ the book; what might really be behind Bezos’ philanthropic push.

A Harlan Ellison memory; Jayapal arrested at DC protest; the SPD ‘mass exodus’ that isn’t; Tacoma beats Seattle (at something not good).

A park’s disappearing viewpoint; parsing the latest homeless stats; a union win for Boeing’s S. Carolina workers; a bomb threat staged as a YouTube stunt.

Amazon’s discontents speak out as head-tax vote nears; coal-port cancellation brings a lawsuit; an outré-book mogul dies.

What a white woman got wrong about a black woman’s experience; an Ed Murray associate’s own past scandal; Rep. Jayapal says “we failed.”

Head-tax supporters thrown out of City Council hearing; the opioid crisis’s costs (hidden and other); a state initiative aims to keep teens away from AR-15s; should the NFL have cheer squads anymore?

Local law firm sues local video-game firm; should we just give in to developers?; something Amazon gladly got from the White House; UW football’s big apparel deal.

‘People-sized salmon’ disappearing; two widely different local music legends gone; more Richard Sherman details; preparing for the student walkout.

The costliest painting ever sold comes to SAM; WA Legislature sprints to the finish; Chris Hansen keeps buying Sodo land; Seattle World’s Fair’s PR genius dies.

A famous highway tunnel’s sad-looking last days; a ‘post-Alexie’ era in Native lit; Legislature’s clock ticks down; ‘Dreamers’ are literally putting out fires (up to now).

Thousands of recalled VW diesel cars are parked at an ex-nuclear site; some Sherman Alexie accusers tell their stories; is there sexism in anti-racist groups?; is Ichiro coming back?; are flying cars finally almost here?

How Seattle stopped more freeways; lawmaker-secrecy vetoed; NHL ticket drive a smash; there’s still comics (and good comics at that) at ComiCon!