In our month-ending missive: More bridge-crash aftermath; whither the Decibel Festival?; smashing a Chihuly (apparently not as a performance-art statement).

In Tuesday’s MISCmedia MAIL: The big city budget campaign begins; Amazon in the Motor City; a song for the bus-crash victims; could eastern Washington become western Idaho?

The tragedy on the bridge persists in many of our thoughts. Also in Monday’s newsletter: Shell may leave the Arctic; KeyArena still might get “renovated;” there was a moon out.

In our midweek missive, school’s out for just one more day; local architects want to REALLY expand Freeway Park; a classic cookie brand comes back (again).

Yep, school’s still out. Also in your Monday missive: Seattle’s new official end-O-summer event; a bureaucratic threat to that and other non-corporate public events; the coal-burning harsh truth behind suburban electricity; the Seahawks’ disappointing debut.

As school kids stay home to annoy parents for a third day, MISCmedia MAIL suggests more time-wastin’ activities. Also: lots o’ weekend arts stuff; getting set to fight the NRA; ancient tools discovered in Redmond (other than Internet Explorer).

We’ve got some handy activity hints for school-struck kids in our Thursday newsletter. Also: China’s upcoming Seattle tech confab; a long-life drug for dogs; and “beeronomics.”

Yep, Seattle teachers are striking. Chaos in thousands of households. Also in Wednesday’s e-newsletter: The incredible shrinking glaciers; Uber wants in at Sea-Tac; City Light wants to help bees.

In our Tuesday e-mail newsletter: Bumbershoot survives (sort of); fire damages a (probably already doomed) low-income building; moving contaminated soil from one seaport cleanup project and across another; the inner meaning of the film It Happened at the World’s Fair.

In Monday’s MISCmedia MAIL: Still no teachers’ contract; charter schools vs. the state constitution; corporatized Bumbershoot and its discontents.