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?

A ‘non-binary,’ oft-cross-dressing YouTube star; viaduct’s death date announced; Safeco Field subsidy OK’d; my new book’s already a hit.

Amazon’s founder finally announces some charitable giving; the sick orca may have died; good and bad fish news; a dream of a better day ahead.

A musical mash-up of Morrissey and workout-DVD reviews (!); the Storm’s righteous total triumph; detained immigrant youth at risk of abuse; local tourism biz deals with shutoff of public ad money.

Sue Bird has fun fanning the flames of Storm fever; finding Burt Reynolds’ Cosmo pose in Tlingit native art; Dori Monson’s latest pathetic tirade.

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.

Viaduct removal means an obscure public artwork’s removal; WNBA players should make more; the Mystery Coke Machine’s non-reappearance; Hugo House buys its new space.

A local bookselling legend dies; M’s get most of the county $ they wanted; Showbox landlord sues; Bernie Sanders introduces ‘Stop B.E.Z.O.S. Act’.

Russell Wilson gets US sports’ highest honor; local theater company tackles ableism; the Storm gets back to the WNBA finals; is it Seattle’s best or worst of times (or both)?

Legendary local hat store closes; Seattle teachers won’t strike; Paul Allen (heart)s GOP; is the downtown streetcar plan still worth it?

Court bans Canada pipeline plan over orcas; teachers’ strike closer; will voters decide Safeco Field cash?; dreams of a post-corporate Bumbershoot.

Gorgeous photos of weird local sea life; Bernie Sanders speaks out for Amazon warehouse workers; homes are cheaper in NY than Seattle now; how not to run a pro-affirmative action campaign.

Ballard library’s newly anti-homeless exterior; smokestorm as a metaphor for urban limitations; ‘Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’ as a horror story.

Tariffs vs. e-bike makers; Durkan signs Showbox bill; historic recording studio to be razed; are mass shootings really ‘senseless’?