For your midweek mulling-over: The local connection to a Jewish song hit; the (indirect) ‘Twin Peaks’ connection to AL senate race; what Chief Seattle didn’t really say (and how it still matters).

In today’s local headlines: the latest accusation against Matt Manweller; another Evergreen prof resigns; Boeing’s big stock buy-back (following tax breaks, layoffs, and record profits); odd-couple podcasters.

For your week-startin’ edification: Matt Manweller’s former almost-child bride speaks; a potential hospital mega-merger; the Sounders wilt; and ‘nerd makeup’ for book and video-game lovers.

In your big weekend letter: The campaign for a Seattle NHL team commences; the real cost of virtual currency; non-progress in hotel-worker safety; another major Seattle institution approaches its date of death.

For your Thursday edification: Sung and unsung heroines of history; local sports legend sued for harassment; original 13 Coins’ last day; new Viaduct demolition schedule.

In your midweek missive: Inside the Ethiopian coffee ceremony; what to name our new hockey team (if we get one); could we get rent control at last?

In a big local news day, Coliseum 3.0 plan OK’d; police chief and City Light CEO quit; parents address the ‘PTA gap’ between local schools; Sounders fans don’t like (unofficial) Sounders beer.

Starting your news week: The woman behind a political card game; local reactions to GOP tax-scam bill; fish-farm salmon still out there; school funding solved at last?

In your big weekend missive: Capitol Hill’s funkiest Xmas tree’s back; Sounders head to a title-game rematch; what wasn’t in Anthony Bourdain’s Seattle episode; Pearl Jam: the (retro-look) video game.

For Thursday: Real-estate ad pretends it’s not raining; ex-M’s star’s strange sex-harassment ‘jokes’; seeking a balanced account of Marcus Whitman’s death.

In your midweek missive: Mayor Durkan’s neighborhood PR blitz; old REI/Value Village bldg. ‘façaded’; oil-train port denounced; MS to tear down its ’80s buildings.

In your Tuesday news: a local landmark comes back from the dead (again); the city’s new homeless-grants plan cuts SHARE; Mayor Durkan takes charge with a personal PR blitz.

Starting your week off: A semi-psych Henry mural outside a pot shop can legally stay; big rain/winds are coming back; why gay-rights orgs shouldn’t settle for an all-white ‘rainbow.’

In your truncated post-holiday missive: art and the fading visibility of blacks now and Chinese Americans then; sex-while-driving crash; #BlackLivesMatter So White (at least in Seattle); a new place to buy our book ‘Loser’ in person (for a limited time).

In your T Day newsfest: The Boeing plane that never flew; more reasons not to build a big oil port; city income tax loses 1st round in courts; a cheap house with a catch.