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.

Area phone (er, ‘Internet and TV’) company sold again; Boeing CEO’s apology; Amazon’s getting union security crews after all; a City Council candidate gets an ‘anti-endorsement’.

A soft-acoustic Alice in Chains cover tune; judge rules the SPD’s in ‘partial non-compliance’ with reforms; more measles cases; a scheduled On the Boards performer is denied entry to the US.

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.

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.

Making room for light-rail tracks next to I-5; Russell Wilson gets a big pay raise; the Legislature sprints to the finish; two newspaper wakes, a decade (and a month) apart.

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’.

A local vintage-wear merchant’s newest comeback; Boeing’s CEO again vows to make things right; Bezos divorce details; one surprisingly positive result of the KOMO homeless-special ado.

The truth behind a ‘Seattle Is Dying’ subject; 3-0 Mariners surprise everyone; the alleged Lake City shooter is an unemployed tech worker; what confronting racism isn’t about.

Thoughts on the Viaduct’s demise by an artist said demise will likely indirectly displace; a wedding at the ICE jail; state Dems propose an ‘extraordinary profits’ tax; remember when Apple was an ‘underdog’ company?

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?

Microsoft workers don’t want the army to get MS’s HoloLens headsets; legislators try to cripple Sound Transit (again); Dow Constantine might run for Gov.; more thanx for your very kind support.

‘Slushmageddon’ arrives and makes a huge mess; viaduct demolition to finally start; school-bond ballots due today; Inslee’s ‘folksy’ national image-making.