Why those new apartment projects all look the same; second thoughts about upzoning; could we finally be getting less-filthy air?

Defaced public artwork replaced (multiple times); how to talk about our lousy air; Central Wash. U fires Matt Manweller; Felix Hernandez’s almost-comeback.

The Showbox is saved! (for now, pending possible litigation); more Sea-Tac hijack fallout; Carmen Best confirmed as police chief; an update on my next book.

More Meinert accusers, now willing to be named; ‘date-rape drug’ seized at Belltown nightclub; will a ‘private’ Spokane speech doom the GOP’s midterm chances?

Pearl Jam’s ‘Home Shows’ raise $11 mill; competing plans to ‘save’ the Showbox emerge; orca-rescue drive continues; an architect defends the stalled downtown streetcar project.

The right-wing orchestrators of attacks on left-wing ‘thought police’; remembering Hiroshima (still); no big primary-election surprises; homelessness task force folds without doing much.

How Sub Pop triumphed; some places we wish weren’t demolished; Matt Manweller rants against #MeToo and ‘liberals’; David Meinert’s business world shrinks some more.

Can the Showbox be saved?; what’ll be left of Northgate; Mariners front office reacts to past misconduct allegations; still more David Meinert fallout.

More people break business ties with David Meinert; more towers are planned for the U District; it’s not just “Bohemians” getting priced out of Seattle.

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

Carmen Best named permanent police chief; Mariners play big roles in the All Star Game; local air quality gets worse; more youth-jail opponents come forward.

A new app shows your place’s indigenous past; a few Republicans finally break with White House; asylum seekers talk suicide; Bezos’ mega-wealth just keeps a-growin’.

Another grand U District church building’s about to go away; a beloved local worker’s taken by ICE agents; is Seattle real estate crash-bound, or is that just wishful thinking?

A local comics creator’s poignant last work; wildfire season’s truly here; complaints against sheriff’s deputies ignored; WA’s first Latino heritage museum.

Seattle’s First Lady of tattoos; Boeing’s new offshore R&D team; origins of the Seattle Dog; another call for Dems to be not too radical.