Caffe Vita workers fired or quit over a new policy on homeless giving; did Boeing quash a preventive MAX fix to save money?; Melinda Gates vows $1B to fight the gender gap; Morrissey concert scrapped.

A big airline’s sudden demise isn’t the worst of Boeing’s problems; a UW report exposes ICE atrocities; automation threatens a whole lot of WA jobs; a Seattle high school cuts history to save STEM.

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.

Lorena Gonzalez runs for state Attorney General; ‘Never Again Is Now’ rally fails to impress ICE’s local landlord (a Holocaust survivor); citizen commission rejects Durkan’s latest police-reform plan; Melinda Gates wants gender equality this century.

Remembering two giants of Seattle visual art; more Showbox landmarking details; another big-money City Council PAC; is Sea-Tac Airport lying about its age?

The owner who tried to move the Seahawks dies; Pride’s bigger than ever but its cause isn’t done; imagining a made-over Third Avenue; a state Senator accuses fellow Dems of racism and sexism.

Grounded 737s are being stored wherever they can go; Apple will occupy the old KING-TV block; baristas stage a labor walkout; replacing food banks with ‘community pantries.’

It sure took long enough but we may finally get more backyard cottages; another centrist City Council PAC emerges while ‘Washington Independents’ folds; why Seattle’s street grid isn’t a ‘disaster.’

Bill Gates on US socialists; the water’s getting too loud for orcas; Durkan lauds homeless-camp ‘sweeps’; our first cute-animal pic in a long time.

(The link to a Boeing-related article in the newsletter was mis-given. Here’s the correct link.)

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.

The strangest new condo amenity yet; getting ready for another Bob Ferguson lawsuit against the White House; the Ms play preseason and regular-season games (almost) simultaneously; have you heard it’s been hot out?

The big snow melt has big effects; REI’s boss suddenly quits; the Gateses talk about saving minority youth; two more light-rail tunnels could cost $2 billion more than bridges.

An Internet-history TV series depicts Bill Gates as a puppet; folks say many (unkind) words about Howard Schultz; a Libyan-born comedian is harassed by Border Patrol; yet another housing-crisis bureaucracy.

Probable end to a Georgetown landmark; definite end to a big live-music club; what Microsoft’s up to (the stock, that is); yet more horror under White House orders.