One of Seattle’s (and the world’s) most prominent people passes. Also: KeyArena razing starts; more deliberate far-right violence; dams vs. orcas.

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 state Supreme Court nixes the death penalty; a local cartoonist’s poignant school-shooting verse; the stock market as a fickle god; a Seattle themed shopping plaza opens in Japan.

A great ‘pop surrealist’ gallery is reborn; Amazon backtracks on warehouse pay; abused/abandoned kids often have opioid-using adults; Hanford’s tanks will still be toxic when they’re empty.

Funnying-up local scenery (without Photoshopping); JCPenney leaves Seattle; a victory for pipeline protesters; a karaoke-related bar stabbing in Madison Park.

Wannabe Seattle NHL team owners show off their planned practice rink complex; ‘Lid I-5’ folks show show off their proposals to ‘reclaim’ downtown lands; Susan Hutchison shows she’s a dittohead.

Sonics nostalgia on display; more national political nightmares; towns where Amazon’s good for physical retailers.

Mr. ‘Claymation’ dies; who cares about the NBA anymore?; Viaduct razing will be fast and loud; recalling the ‘Infamous Kitsap Ferry Riot’.

Ballard’s beautiful, doomed railway bridge; more Amazon pay-raise fallout; county to change deadly-force inquests; are flying cars on the way at last?

Amazon’s sudden conversion to $15 an hour for everyone; Seattle’s a step closer to NHL hockey; how kids in different Seattle neighborhoods have different chances in life.

Remembering the Pioneer Square underground ‘comfort station’; City Light’s new boss has another mess to clean up; saving historic video; there’s a new plague of prank 911 calls.

A proud holdout dive bar; still more local Kavanaugh and gender-justice fallout; e-scooters are a big hit in Tacoma; putting logs into a river to help the fish.

Archie McPhee’s latest novelty junk food; heroism and spoiled privilege on display in DC; a plan for tiny art spaces; a petition would rescind the county’s Safeco Field subsidies.

Seattle’s art and performance scenes are fighting back; protests over KEXP’s axing of protesters’ favorite show; a local angle on the Kavanaugh scandal; Amazon’s anti-union video surfaces.

Remembering Sicks’ Stadium and Washington Mutual Bank; more Durkan-budget details; ‘disaster status’ for western salmon fisheries; opioid traces may have been found in shellfish.