City Council committee OKs big UW growth plan (with conditions); win for Hanford workers; setback for ICE-jail hunger strikers; A LOT more Amazon Go stores on the way.

Whose land are we really on?

Is climate change already inevitable?

Why is autumn air so wonderful?

Mt. St. Helens is a mighty volcano in an odd location; another get-girls-into-STEM drive starts; a historic local eatery will finally reopen; just a brief 9/11 thought.

Drone video of the Sodo Busway murals; local air’s still dreadful; crane crews on strike; claims of sexual-assault cover-up at a summer camp.

We’ve again got the most noxious air in the world; King County settles teen solitary-confinement lawsuit; Seattle’s mega-growth may finally be slowing; did Metro order buses that can’t go up our steep hills?

The grandest Battery Street Tunnel idea yet; what Kim Schrier really said about WWII; a legal victory for the mentally ill; Third Avenue now bus-only; the Storm’s terrific season.

#MeToo allegations against a top local “hip capitalist”; a US House candidate dares call it treason; can business leaders solve homelessness?

Fake land-use signs for imaginary developments; Olympia’s not the worst town for jobs after all; seven separated refugee kids are detained in WA; could climate change kill the Internet?

A birthday for this e-missive (and its maker); various Seattles that might have been; ICE mothers jailed here; peacocks vs. cars in BC.

Drag protesters at Amazon’s shareholder meeting; Durkan’s big new shelter plan; LCD license plates and their discontents; harassment claims against ex-UW track coach.

Jeff Bezos’ plan for space colonies; Canada takes over big pipeline project; school-shooter video game dropped; America needs a ‘new social contract.’

What a white woman got wrong about a black woman’s experience; an Ed Murray associate’s own past scandal; Rep. Jayapal says “we failed.”

A judge rules for fish over power; sexism charged at SDOT; KOMO staff don’t like Sinclair’s agit-prop demands; city approves parking-less apartments.

Bitcoin ‘miners’ want a LOT of our electricity; Maru Mora Villalpando’s day in court; iHeart Meida goes bust; what St. Pat’s really means.

The Pike Place Market as a mixed-economy role model; student walkout preview; Metro stuck with not-fully ‘accessible’ minivans; what’s really keeping more women from tech careers?