The ‘Twin Peaks’ high school’s held its last class; a downtown hotel’s been finished for two years without opening; the World Wide Web’s birthplace tries to divorce from Microsoft; KING loses another local-news legend.

Top NW pop foods; top (current) NW pop music acts; Sawant’s campaign raises major bucks; Howard Schultz’s campaign hits a pause.

A Japanese exchange student among the Richland Bombers; Council OKs Showbox extension and Ft. Lawton housing; a new building will look like a ‘façaded’ old building; Nick Hanauer on why ‘Education Isn’t Enough.’

Nordstrom’s leaving Northgate; a freak ambulance crash; where can two young-adult shelters go?; why should we save the Showbox?

Bruce Pavitt’s cheap-food memories; this humble li’l e-missive’s fourth birthday; a rights dispute over a classic Seattle novel; Bush Garden’s ex-owner doesn’t want its building saved.

Xbox-branded grooming products are announced; the Showbox-preservation drive wins another round; Inslee’s climate-debate proposal’s spurned (thus giving him more PR); thoughts about D-Day 75 years after.

The newest public (painted) face of the drive to expose violence against Native women; an Edmonds convenience-store owner closes after an allegedly racist attack; another Showbox reprieve; more questions about the homeless count.

Neko Case misses the old Ballard; the Mariners’ freefall continues; another big encampment sweep and its discontents; who’s afraid of 5G cell signals?

David Shields’ Marshawn Lynch biopic; Seattle politics’ biggest ‘third rail’; King County’s new rules on deadly-force inquests; should lawmakers get to become instant lobbyists?

It sure took long enough but we may finally get more backyard cottages; another centrist City Council PAC emerges while ‘Washington Independents’ folds; why Seattle’s street grid isn’t a ‘disaster.’

Bush Garden lives!; the Showbox may live!; Seattle keeps growing (but more slowly); no, affordable housing can’t wait.

Comparing rival fashion-art exhibits; a historic restaurant space reopens; more measles-outbreak effects; 50 years of getting stuck in traffic on I-5.

A soft-acoustic Alice in Chains cover tune; judge rules the SPD’s in ‘partial non-compliance’ with reforms; more measles cases; a scheduled On the Boards performer is denied entry to the US.

Bill Nye explains climate change with funny props; big business has a city-council takeover plan; a legal win for backyard cottages; robots will pick apples and box up Amazon stuff.

Sea lions: threat or menace?; scooter-shares might finally come to Seattle; how a global criminal helped kill a Seattle restaurant; it’s too darn hot.