One scientist’s long-term study of dying glaciers; whale-watching tour operators win and coal-port developers lose in court decisions; can bright clothes keep Rainier Ave. pedestrians alive?

Nordstrom leaves an emptying-out Northgate; a bus driver’s lovely ‘Ode to Aurora;’ feds try to discredit a climate-related UW study; there’s too much of the wrong kind of salmon.

Operation Nightwatch’s executive director recalls struggles past and present; possible delays in another Boeing jet program; City Council races turn ‘nasty’; should Seattle be more like Minneapolis (without all the ice)?

Many local angles on the Apollo 11 nostalgia; Amazon defends itself to a Congressional committee; the Lake Washington water-taxi idea progresses; Rapinoe for Prez?

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

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

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.’

A local animation legend dies; affirmative-action foes file a referendum to stop I-1000; Boeing’s CEO says he won’t quit; a coffee company that knows when you need more beans.

Tales of an early Seattle madam aren’t all true but still helped save Pioneer Square; another possible Boeing scandal; missing evidence in the Bertha tunnel lawsuit; even the STEM world needs the humanities.

Viaduct destruction continues; still more anti-‘Seattle Is Dying’ counter-arguments; Mariners become human again; Durkan defends immigrants (and defends defending them).

An architect looks at how we could embrace the local rain; more airlines and nations ground the 737 Max; state sues opioid wholesalers; Gonzaga surprisingly loses the WCC tourney title game.

Viaduct demolition’s just as noisy as expected; more Amazon-snubs-NY fallout; U Way merchants don’t want upzones; Heidi Wills wants back on the City Council.

Another vital alt-culture spot’s (at least indirectly) threatened; another City Council member’s not running again; another local TV station’s for sale; the snow trouble’s still not over in some places.

A major correction: The site where a strangely-shaped new tower project is going up, as seen in Thursday’s MISCmedia MAIL, is NOT the site of El Corazon/The Funhouse, but an adjacent lot. Our apologies to all.

‘Slushmageddon’ arrives and makes a huge mess; viaduct demolition to finally start; school-bond ballots due today; Inslee’s ‘folksy’ national image-making.

One more day of cold sunshine before snow returns; Howard Schultz’s questionable investments; MLB dismisses racism claims against the Mariners; Mayor Durkan reveals secret cancer surgery.