Starbucks’ ‘craziest’ idea yet; Portland police chief taunts antifa protesters; can bad air get carbon fee passed?; remembering Aretha Franklin.

Why those new apartment projects all look the same; second thoughts about upzoning; could we finally be getting less-filthy air?

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

The Showbox is saved! (for now, pending possible litigation); more Sea-Tac hijack fallout; Carmen Best confirmed as police chief; an update on my next book.

Trying to understand the Sea-Tac plane theft/crash; Sub Pop brings fun back to music festivals; sick orca improving; almost 200 stars support saving the Showbox.

More Meinert accusers, now willing to be named; ‘date-rape drug’ seized at Belltown nightclub; will a ‘private’ Spokane speech doom the GOP’s midterm chances?

The right-wing orchestrators of attacks on left-wing ‘thought police’; remembering Hiroshima (still); no big primary-election surprises; homelessness task force folds without doing much.

The ‘quietest place in America’ gets pretty noisy these days; a need for ‘ethnic-specific’ blood donors; 3D-printer gun plans kept offline for now.

‘Seattle Teriyaki’ comes to Philly; local food-wholesale empire sold off; new bike-share rules OK’d; Bitcoin mining via a video-game app.

A bike-share firm that may or may not be leaving town; one person who supports razing the Showbox; an ‘answer’ video to the police lip-sync spectacle.

‘Save the Showbox’ drive grows; burning toxic chemicals while they’re still in the ground; GOP politician uses brutal smear tactics (so what’s new?).

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?

More people break business ties with David Meinert; more towers are planned for the U District; it’s not just “Bohemians” getting priced out of Seattle.

#MeToo allegations against a top local “hip capitalist”; a US House candidate dares call it treason; can business leaders solve homelessness?

Carmen Best named permanent police chief; Mariners play big roles in the All Star Game; local air quality gets worse; more youth-jail opponents come forward.