Ballard ‘spite house’ lives!; deadly-force law gets un-amended; head tax proposal’s introduced; a better ‘role’ for a certain DC insider?

Seattle U allowed a student drag show but doesn’t like seeing it in the school paper; another student rally against shootings; boycotting a ‘bro-culture’ brewery.

An un-gentrified downtown apparel shop suddenly shutters after 37 years; why Rhapsody didn’t get as big as Spotify; our regressive tax system in detail; a life lesson from Rev. Samuel McKinney.

Seeking compassion, not prison, for drug victims; Microsoft women still scarce; Oberto Sausage sold; Colin Kaepernick to the Seahawks?

Saving baking arts at South Seattle College; what’s wrong with closing sex-work websites; coastal oil drilling’s now less likely; protests at wannabe Amazon HQ2 cities.

A local comedy legend passes; the county exec’s recorded speech; UW psych unit threatened; a possible motive for Michael Bennett’s accuser.

Mayor stalls (but doesn’t stop) a transit project; racism and (offline) ‘social networks’; Trans Visibility Day; tribes sue state to save salmon.

Scenes from the March for Our Lives; for-profit immigration jail vs. Tacoma; Green Lake fish & chips stand not ‘landmarked’; what’s really behind the Michael Bennett indictment?

Another ‘brutalist’ edifice to be fought over; Bellevue mosque burns again; bike-share vandals get scarier; can the private sector solve homelessness? (probably not).

A strange sight in Elliott Bay; should tech titans be split up?; a new angle to the 4Culture clash; solar panels at an ex-coal mine.

Rachel Dolezal resurfaces again; deadly-force reform passes on Legislature’s last day; Amazon’s local effects get debated; Tully’s endgame underway?

A famous highway tunnel’s sad-looking last days; a ‘post-Alexie’ era in Native lit; Legislature’s clock ticks down; ‘Dreamers’ are literally putting out fires (up to now).

Inside another dying Sears; Sherman Alexie’s apology and counter-claims; making the ‘green’ cannabis trade less white; Seattle’s past attempts at an NHL team.

NW’s biggest fish getting small; news media agree on laws that affect the news media; oil-train port dead; replacing opioids with acupuncture.

On a relatively slow news day we discuss an ocean-themed bowling alley (really!); a Muslim activist speaking to Japanese Americans; the Yakama tribe suing polluters; and a costly, no-electronics, teen ‘unboot camp.’