The Georgetown Steam Plant gets a fixing-up; feds approve the T-Mobile/Sprint deal (but more obstacles remain); county prosecutors are tipping off ICE agents about who’s coming to courthouses; Space Needle boss blasts Boeing’s management.

A puppet salmon’s sermon about driving less; could Amazon be broken up and survive?; a UK family has its own tale of mistreatment by US border officers; the Mariners are now in sole possession of a major baseball record.

A city legal settlement means trouble for attempts to save the Showbox; City Market’s site’s marked for development; ‘Seattle’ mag publisher files for bankruptcy; Boeing wants in on the budding space-tourism biz.

That local ad jingle you still can’t forget; is bus riding really that dangerous? (a driver says no); addressing built-in bias in school gifted programs; how ‘tree rustlers’ allegedly started a big wildfire.

Lime Pod car shares are going away; an SPD officer sues over PCB exposure at a homeless-camp cleanup; FAA chief tests the 737 MAX software fix; Bezos’ pledge to buy lots of electric vans won’t keep many of his workers away from today’s Climate Strike.

Climate change gets dreadful serious in Alaska; Nick Hanauer links corporate greed to sociopathy; Tim Eyman’s in still more trouble; deadly-force-inquest reform talks may have hit an impasse; a hurt but still-cute owl gets some TLC.

Drone pix capture Tacoma’s beauty (yes!); $450,000 to a City Light harassment whistleblower; tunnels for light rail would cost way more than bridges; our kelp needs our help.

Venerable music-dance club’s building’s for sale; Gates details past meetings w/Jeffrey Epstein; Columbia River barges are stuck behind a broken dam lock; 18 Years After.

Microsoft interns revive an obscure music sub-genre; Amazon workers plan a climate walkout; Frances Bean Cobain designs Kurt-sploitation clothes; ‘blue’ people DO live in ‘red’ counties.

Some just-plain-gorgeous WA scenic photos; investigators clear Constantine (with a caveat); the mother of Seattle City Council districts dies; Bellevue prepares for Amazon’s office dogs.

The Seahawks’ new single-game ‘concert’ art; toasting a new school year; some big donors flee Matt Shea; a Burien church’s exhibit on slavery and its legacy.

Did a local black-dance pioneer inspire the Space Needle’s shape?; does SDOT have to buy bigger streetcars?; what killed thousands of bees in Spokane?; are Americans addicted to violence and hate?

The locals behind some powerful political posters; making virtual reality more like reality (i.e., less all-white); a south-end landmark’s sold; memories of Bumbershoots past.

Bill Nye invokes ‘behavior change’ for Google; AG Bob Ferguson sues to keep federal clean-power rules; Southwest Airlines might buy its first non-Boeing planes; mistrial in UW shooting case.

Folks take to the streets against lane-cheating drivers; City Council nixes soda-tax veto; Crosscut workers protest their boss’s firing; an Amazon interview coach charges thousands to job seekers.