David Meinert to buy the Mecca Cafe; local co. to buy Sports Illustrated; onetime immigrant-detention advocate’s in town; Amazon talks back to more critics.

The ‘Twin Peaks’ high school’s held its last class; a downtown hotel’s been finished for two years without opening; the World Wide Web’s birthplace tries to divorce from Microsoft; KING loses another local-news legend.

Vancouver store tries and fails to embarrass customers; Nick Hanauer starts a PAC for progressive Council hopefuls; an old medical office building will be a ‘Museum of Museums’; Twitter accuses an anti-racist author of racist imagery.

Bruce Pavitt’s cheap-food memories; this humble li’l e-missive’s fourth birthday; a rights dispute over a classic Seattle novel; Bush Garden’s ex-owner doesn’t want its building saved.

Xbox-branded grooming products are announced; the Showbox-preservation drive wins another round; Inslee’s climate-debate proposal’s spurned (thus giving him more PR); thoughts about D-Day 75 years after.

Neko Case misses the old Ballard; the Mariners’ freefall continues; another big encampment sweep and its discontents; who’s afraid of 5G cell signals?

Remembering a local performance legend; this year’s official homeless count is down; yet another 737 problem; why Seattle (heart)s business so much.

Area phone (er, ‘Internet and TV’) company sold again; Boeing CEO’s apology; Amazon’s getting union security crews after all; a City Council candidate gets an ‘anti-endorsement’.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s message of unity brings out the dividers; Ride the Ducks driver speaks out; judge rules against Eyman associates; what won’t help the homeless (or anybody).

Bush Garden lives!; the Showbox may live!; Seattle keeps growing (but more slowly); no, affordable housing can’t wait.

A gathering to fight the abortion bans; a local-music legend’s latest battle; another big DSHS neglect settlement; another big 737 MAX lawsuit.

Remembering Mount St. Helens’ blast; lotsa City Council hopefuls; more flak against Judge Ed McKenna; could G5 cell service imperil weather forecasting?

Remembering the Chinese railroad builders 150 years later; Boeing says it’s got a 737 MAX fix ready; why Puget Sound’s orange in spots; another Mt. St. Helens anniversary.

A soft-acoustic Alice in Chains cover tune; judge rules the SPD’s in ‘partial non-compliance’ with reforms; more measles cases; a scheduled On the Boards performer is denied entry to the US.

BBC Radio spins a yarn about Ballard’s spite house; a fish-saving plan that didn’t get built; the pilots who tried to warn Boeing; a scramble to control the warming Arctic.