Where a national article on Seattle destinations doesn’t tell folks to go; recalling the first attempted Boeing takeover; a local case of thwarted justice becomes a miniseries; I’m crowdfunding again.

Venerable music-dance club’s building’s for sale; Gates details past meetings w/Jeffrey Epstein; Columbia River barges are stuck behind a broken dam lock; 18 Years After.

Microsoft interns revive an obscure music sub-genre; Amazon workers plan a climate walkout; Frances Bean Cobain designs Kurt-sploitation clothes; ‘blue’ people DO live in ‘red’ counties.

Paul Allen’s ultra-mega-yacht’s for sale; remembering a master of altered lit-forms; local students of color state their grievances in a DIY book; a new ‘Blob’ threatens Pacific marine life.

Some just-plain-gorgeous WA scenic photos; investigators clear Constantine (with a caveat); the mother of Seattle City Council districts dies; Bellevue prepares for Amazon’s office dogs.

Did a local black-dance pioneer inspire the Space Needle’s shape?; does SDOT have to buy bigger streetcars?; what killed thousands of bees in Spokane?; are Americans addicted to violence and hate?

The locals behind some powerful political posters; making virtual reality more like reality (i.e., less all-white); a south-end landmark’s sold; memories of Bumbershoots past.

Elizabeth Warren gives a speech to Seattle’s not-necessarily-wealthy; a ‘spirit of Seattle’ defense of city-run golf courses; there’s a tentative teachers’ contract; the Wall St. Journal finds lotsa ‘banned or mislabeled’ stuff from Amazon Marketplace sellers.

One scientist’s long-term study of dying glaciers; whale-watching tour operators win and coal-port developers lose in court decisions; can bright clothes keep Rainier Ave. pedestrians alive?

Behind the suddenly famous ‘Salmon Cannon’; a dump truck crashes into a Subway shop; the Inslee campaign’s next do-or-die deadline; how should the county spend $318 million for school kids?

‘Swatting’ pranks and their real dangers; why farmers want to keep the Snake River dams; state Supreme Court upholds Three Strikes law; Lake Washington’s warming up.

Bill Nye invokes ‘behavior change’ for Google; AG Bob Ferguson sues to keep federal clean-power rules; Southwest Airlines might buy its first non-Boeing planes; mistrial in UW shooting case.

Nordstrom leaves an emptying-out Northgate; a bus driver’s lovely ‘Ode to Aurora;’ feds try to discredit a climate-related UW study; there’s too much of the wrong kind of salmon.

The downtown ferry terminal will go bye-bye; pork farmers halted a big health probe; robots potentially threaten lots of jobs; a ‘hot, nasty summer election campaign’ is almost over.

In another massive e-missive: Death Cab’s tribute to young pipeline-blast victims; charges in a different kind of cyber-theft; no more ‘dress-coding’ in Seattle schools; Amazon’s Dash gets ditched.