Still more post-head-tax punditry; local rents go down a little; Rep. Jayapal wants ICE family-separations stopped; the Storm’s ex-coach dies.

A park’s disappearing viewpoint; parsing the latest homeless stats; a union win for Boeing’s S. Carolina workers; a bomb threat staged as a YouTube stunt.

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.

A ‘genderless’ fashion model; police chief Carmen Best’s defenders; a family shelter gets its first permanent space; backyard homes as a nascent ‘cottage’ industry.

Head-tax haters keep hating; Robinson Cano caught ‘using’; Cosmic Crisp apple PR blitz just beginning; what progressives can say they’re for.

Nordic Museum’s big new debut; Cinco de Mayo’s new meaning; more head-tax and public-hearing-screamers fallout; Ichiro gets kicked upstairs.

Head-tax supporters thrown out of City Council hearing; the opioid crisis’s costs (hidden and other); a state initiative aims to keep teens away from AR-15s; should the NFL have cheer squads anymore?

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

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

How Seattle stopped more freeways; lawmaker-secrecy vetoed; NHL ticket drive a smash; there’s still comics (and good comics at that) at ComiCon!

Renowned local author accused of harassment; Inslee drives his point in DC; ICE retaliation evidence; Scoop Jackson’s widow dies.

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).

On a relatively slow news day we discuss an ocean-themed bowling alley (really!); a Muslim activist speaking to Japanese Americans; the Yakama tribe suing polluters; and a costly, no-electronics, teen ‘unboot camp.’

An icy valentine; UN human-rights watchers speak for Maru Mora-Villalpando; a legacy gay ‘steam room’ club’s for sale (again); the cost of faulty computer systems.

‘Dune’ author gets his memorial park at last; Valentine’s thoughts on jaded cynicism (hint: it’s passé); one more ‘bad apple’ caught at ICE.