We start a new month, and with it one year to save America from its ‘saviors’. Other topics today: making local history less white; Olympia’s ‘old boys’ club’ and its discontents; big kudos for the local lit scene.

On this “spooktacular” day, we offer a ‘Harry Potter’ Halloween; a reform agreement with (some) police; a Microsoft discrimination suit that might grow; and the off-again Sprint/T-Mobile merger.

We begin another wacky week of news with more supposedly-clever ways to abandon bike-share vehicles; NFL protests get more “meta”; and letting building owners sell their “airspace.”

In your big weekend e-letter: Local-angle Halloween costume tips; out-O-state corporate $ behind 45th District attack ads; a half-million Amazonians now roam the earth; UW’s dental-school dean extracts himself.

For Thursday, we present to you: Facebook’s “boost” feed fees bashed; opioid summit; forest-thinning plan, alt-right blogger kills own leftist father.

In your midweek missive: A local art legend’s next act; oodles of needles; a “salmon safe” office building; and a retail sector potentially immune to an Amazon takeover.

For Tuesday: A bad Halloween costume choice; a suspicious package turns out to contain Top Ramen; conservative “comedy” stereotyping Seattle liberals.

Our Monday missive’s got a familiar ‘attitude’ for a would-be new arts Mecca; still more HQ2 silliness; and Chris Hansen trying to slow down the KeyArena rebuild.

In your big weekend news dispatch: the end of Seattle Weekly as we know it; that Eastside state Senate race gets sleazier; defending Freeway Park’s original design; a four-point affordable housing plan.

Cafe Racer’s last hurrah was a wake, a reunion, and a fond adieu. Also today: Halloween costume trends; downtown streetcar threatened; a tribe’s patent suit against Amazon & Microsoft.

In your midweek missive: Van Gogh vs. Pacific-storm satellite imagery; Ottawa hockey fans are exhorted to make noise for Amazon (really); a warning that the extreme right will be with us a long while.

As wintery weather sets in, MISCmedia MAIL’s topics include Cafe Racer’s possible last days; mining vs. salmon in Alaska; Amazon taking most of the ex-Bon Marché building; and the high cost of cheap stuff.

We begin another week of MISCmedia MAIL looking at people protesting a defamer of public education; Portland cops vs duct-taped protesters; and the Sounders doing what UW and WSU football couldn’t.

In your big weekend news roundup: A cult toy’s Seattle connection; more stupid health-insurance tricks; Amazon’s man in Hollywood suspended; ‘dead zone’ waters off the Oregon coast.

For your Thursday perusal: Seattle’s not out of Amazon’s HQ2 running after all; Naomi Klein among the BC wildfires; earthquake safety vs. affordable rent; Bob Ferguson vs. Travel Ban 3.0.