Classic Ballard diner suddenly shutters; useful things made from Boeing fiber leftovers; cop retaliates against man who’d cussed at him; Amazon loves pomposity.

A Christmas tree ornament for our time; tribes vs. oil pipeline redux; new City Council candidates; what’s in a (potato chip) name?

Amazon’s new campuses and their discontents; can a big new methanol plant lead to less carbon emission?; what we don’t know about killed and missing indigenous women.

Amazon admits what we’ve known about dual HQ2s; is Seattle’s loss also NY & VA’s loss?; big Starbucks layoffs; City Council approves Seattle Police labor contract.

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.

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?

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.

Whose land are we really on?

Is climate change already inevitable?

Why is autumn air so wonderful?

A musical mash-up of Morrissey and workout-DVD reviews (!); the Storm’s righteous total triumph; detained immigrant youth at risk of abuse; local tourism biz deals with shutoff of public ad money.

Defaced public artwork replaced (multiple times); how to talk about our lousy air; Central Wash. U fires Matt Manweller; Felix Hernandez’s almost-comeback.

How Sub Pop triumphed; some places we wish weren’t demolished; Matt Manweller rants against #MeToo and ‘liberals’; David Meinert’s business world shrinks some more.

Tesla Motors settles with the artist it ripped off; memories of pioneer Seattle (including the bad parts); another local TV station maybe for sale; are we at a ‘tipping point’ in the local real-estate boom?

A local comics creator’s poignant last work; wildfire season’s truly here; complaints against sheriff’s deputies ignored; WA’s first Latino heritage museum.

Seattle’s First Lady of tattoos; Boeing’s new offshore R&D team; origins of the Seattle Dog; another call for Dems to be not too radical.

Harsh police treatment for a bus-fare scofflaw; yet more head-tax complications; Death Cab on a Bezos-era Seattle; the royal wedding preacher’s lessons for us.