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.

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

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

All of Washington’s mammals hung up on a wall; more trouble at Western State; another ‘Twin Peaks’ star RIP; what do you call it when the rich displace the middle class?

Hardwick’s Swap Shop to close (really this time); crane victim’s family to sue; homeless numbers drop (maybe); the boats that evoke a pre-techie Seattle.

A local animation legend dies; affirmative-action foes file a referendum to stop I-1000; Boeing’s CEO says he won’t quit; a coffee company that knows when you need more beans.

Boeing Field gets new passenger service (but no more ICE deportations); ‘a tale of two Boeing factories’; Amazon sellers and workers talk about their struggles; Seattle’s next-to-last video store may close.

Tales of an early Seattle madam aren’t all true but still helped save Pioneer Square; another possible Boeing scandal; missing evidence in the Bertha tunnel lawsuit; even the STEM world needs the humanities.

A new mark of desperation: shoplifting Goodwill; the new arena will take longer and cost more; former co-mayor (sorta) Bob Royer dies; the meaning of Saturday’s unofficial holiday.

Fewer golfers are using Seattle’s city-owned courses; Durkan denies claims of a ‘toxic workplace’; the Daylight Savings Time bill has a catch; Microsoft wants a national carbon tax.

In an upcoming exhibit, MOHAI insists there IS fashion style here; Sawant wants to challenge the state’s rent-control ban; the ex-Ballard Zesto site will be razed; online trolls hate ‘pay transparency’.

An online graphic novella tells of the local orcas’ plight; the Northgate Nordstrom to be razed; could Boeing cause a national recession?; look at all the council candidates!