The downtown ferry terminal will go bye-bye; pork farmers halted a big health probe; robots potentially threaten lots of jobs; a ‘hot, nasty summer election campaign’ is almost over.

In one of our biggest newsletters to date: Sounders FC doesn’t like fans’ giant anti-fascist flag; WA’s 1st woman (and gay) House speaker; obviously faked pix on City Council campaign mailers; Inslee’s last (presidential campaign) stand?

An attempt to save the doomed-for-development Alki Rock House; learning about the alleged Seattle cyber-thief; more UW College Republican hate speech; can Inslee’s presidential campaign live another day?

A cartoon with a local star spins a positive vision of Native life; the T-Mobile/Sprint deal moves ahead; Amazon’s talked with ICE about selling facial-recognition software; the limits of Seattle smugness.

Remembering two giants of Seattle visual art; more Showbox landmarking details; another big-money City Council PAC; is Sea-Tac Airport lying about its age?

An artist’s preserved kid-clothes make a message about the child detainees; ICE jails former church sanctuary resident; the Showbox gets ‘landmarked’; a shooting survivor’s concert to help others.

A state court nixes Seattle’s wealth tax but suggests a possible fix; Prime Day protests; WSDOT touts high-speed rail’s promise; developers’ plans for the Lava Lounge site don’t look very ‘funky’.

Baseball-lit legend Jim Bouton dies; the city seeks more time for SPD reforms; Burke-Gilman Trail’s ‘missing link’ still missing; mapping the locations of environmental-health hazards.

An underwhelming locally-made movie; a Hanford facility’s dangerous decay; a Boeing union official’s stern diagnosis about the company culture; another Megan Rapinoe triumph.

An art installation for the Northwest’s new “fifth season”; Durkan (hearts) Amazon, presidential candidates don’t; BC can’t get rid of its trash; thousands of e-books sold by Microsoft will become unreadable.

An author asks how progressive we really are; the FAA finds a new 737 MAX flaw; Burke-Gilman Trail’s ‘missing link’ finally starts (maybe); should SPD oversight leave out the community?

Showbox ruling aftermath; church art-trashing aftermath; ‘brush-eating goats’ to help stop wildfires; could Children’s Hospital lose its license?

Art made from Viaduct scraps; a big human-caused sewage spill; the KC Labor Council has a new City Council fave; what rising sea levels may cost Washington state.

Lots more oil tankers are bound for the Sound; hate crimes outside a Renton church; more Meinert/Mecca reaction; would you trust your financial privacy to Facebook?

Life with the downtown falcons; Jayapal shouts her abortion; Tacoma gives a novelist a park; Amazon says it does-so pay taxes.