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.’

The rapid transit system we could’ve had; the White House’s war on NW public power; Bill Gates wants today’s tech titans not to act like him.

Flying cars (or something like them) at last?; did the state DOL help ICE prosecute Maru Mora-Villalpando?; stop pipelines with wine!

An outspoken Seahawk preaches understanding; how awful the proposed federal budget is on just about everything; saving a mural in a ‘mothballed’ building.

A cartoon guide to economics; who is, isn’t at city/Amazon summit; minor pot convictions in Seattle are erased; thoughts on the Winter Olympics; dozens of weekend events.

The white guys behind a ‘Sick of White Guys’ book; why the Almighty Stock Price likely doesn’t matter to you; are new building projects slowing here?

In your big weekend mail: Dave Grohl does his part for Seattle tourism; a filmmaker who was forbidden to make more films; workers sue a blueberry farm; more contamination found at Hanford; many weekend event listings.

Color-coded photo-illustrations of Seattle’s massive growth; one of the NW’s finest authors passes; grim homeless stats; we miss the ‘Big One’ quake again; an ‘odd threesome’ promotes worker-benefits reform.

Inside Amazon’s latest physical-store concept; women lacking on NW corporate boards; using ‘mindfulness’ for racial healing; Pearl Jam’s ‘homecoming’ benefit shows.

To start off your week: Women’s March scenes; local comix legend dies; getting a taste of dementia; tech-biz sexism’s even worse than some imagine.

In your midweek missive: Deportation threat won’t silence a local Latinx activist; WA’s last GOP gov dies at 91; a ‘landmarked’ Capitol Hill mansion’s being razed anyway.

In our first Monday missive in three weeks: Seattle DIY radio makes the NYT; the EPA re-hires State Sen. Doug Ericksen; MS fights a gender-discrimination suit; and Rattlesnake Ridge gets scarier.

Our big weekend letter looks at the feds’ revived threat to legal cannabis; yet another dying Sears; a drive to make the state more environmentally “resilient;” and a conspiracy suit against high housing costs.

The year’s final MISCmedia MAIL explores a city getting ever younger; an addition to the Charleena Lyles lawsuit; the end of Seattle’s crooked-est alley; and Sherman Alexie exhorting against hate.

Our pre-holiday message includes stuff about Bob Ferguson vs. Comcast; derailment survivors vs. Amtrak et al.; a trans man vs. Providence Swedish; and the death of our premier radio-drama revivalist.