Seeking compassion, not prison, for drug victims; Microsoft women still scarce; Oberto Sausage sold; Colin Kaepernick to the Seahawks?

A local civil-rights legend passes; an historic nightlife spot’s possibly threatened; a pending victory for BC pipeline opponents; how not to rename a supermarket.

Virtual reality’s next wowie/scary advance; a local arts mag’s new chapter; why the state Supreme Court backs second chances; could coal exports really be eco-friendly?

A local comedy legend passes; the county exec’s recorded speech; UW psych unit threatened; a possible motive for Michael Bennett’s accuser.

Good (local) and frustrating (national) examples of the Christian spirit at work; a judge’s ruling for asylum seekers; Aurora Avenue’s Peutz Golf Range to become houses.

Russian Consulate shuttered; Battery St. Tunnel officially doomed; the Kingdome remembered.

Scenes from the March for Our Lives; for-profit immigration jail vs. Tacoma; Green Lake fish & chips stand not ‘landmarked’; what’s really behind the Michael Bennett indictment?

Another ‘brutalist’ edifice to be fought over; Bellevue mosque burns again; bike-share vandals get scarier; can the private sector solve homelessness? (probably not).

U District hardware icon to leave; Sen. Cantwell wants Facebook to talk; local Catholics vs. ICE; making ‘tiny houses’ more like ‘tiny houses.’

The #Enough protests show what’s right with Those Kids Today; the Amazon angle to the Toys “R” Us demise; still more Alexie reactions; how Seattle’s Capitol Hill ‘gayborhood’ grew and shrank.

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?

Northgate gets less mall-y while PCC gets more ritzy; Bitcoin ‘miners’ invade Eastern Wash.; Richard Sherman’s goodbye; Hanford’s ‘normalization of deviance.’

A famous highway tunnel’s sad-looking last days; a ‘post-Alexie’ era in Native lit; Legislature’s clock ticks down; ‘Dreamers’ are literally putting out fires (up to now).

In our big weekend missive: Art pastiches that are more than mere knockoffs; battle for 4Culture continues; a people-friendly Aurora Avenue?; our annual ode to snow.

Office art gets artier at local corporate HQs; Jenny Durkan’s ‘State of the City’ speech avoids easy answers; an Ijeoma Oluo essay didn’t take down Al Franken (despite recent claims that it did).