More reaction against ICE child-taking; a personal collection of slavery artifacts; bringing the (beautiful) sea lamprey back to local waters.

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.

Still more post-head-tax punditry; local rents go down a little; Rep. Jayapal wants ICE family-separations stopped; the Storm’s ex-coach dies.

Head tax dies, homeless crisis lives on; a horrid wildfire forecast; a drive to let states create single-payer health plans; freeze pops with booze.

Starbucks boss Howard Schultz’s second retirement; the Mariners’ amazing season (thus far); a local ditty named the ‘best song of 1998’; Dr. Hubert Locke RIP.

A transgender activist’s Twitter complaint; more homeless-stats fallout; Microsoft buying GitHub?; how not to convince me of something.

A park’s disappearing viewpoint; parsing the latest homeless stats; a union win for Boeing’s S. Carolina workers; a bomb threat staged as a YouTube stunt.

Drag protesters at Amazon’s shareholder meeting; Durkan’s big new shelter plan; LCD license plates and their discontents; harassment claims against ex-UW track coach.

Jeff Bezos’ plan for space colonies; Canada takes over big pipeline project; school-shooter video game dropped; America needs a ‘new social contract.’

A ‘genderless’ fashion model; police chief Carmen Best’s defenders; a family shelter gets its first permanent space; backyard homes as a nascent ‘cottage’ industry.

Flags will alert boaters to nearby orcas; DACA stories from the Yakima Valley; a school-shooting video game denounced; what head-tax opponents could do instead.

Art installations describe life in a lonesome town; the McKinsey report’s non-non-existence; Seattle’s ‘whiteness problem’; the usual scads of weekend events.

Anti-head-tax campaign begins with big funding; kayakers vs. pipeline redux; Susan Hutchison redux; Seattle’s not immune to hate-talk after all.

In our big weekend missive: ‘Gender-fluid’ teen’s prom experience makes the NYT; 38 years since St. Helens; ‘two two-minute statements’ explaining the housing crisis; scads of event listings.

Seattle’s got big plans for a post-Viaduct waterfront—if property owners don’t balk at the cost; SIFF gets more female (but the software biz doesn’t); head-tax talk goes on and on.