A Tacoma mag tries to spark new interest in both Tacoma and print media; Dow Constantine slams back against an ICE PR offensive; a big gas leak hits the U District; feeling broke on $100,000 a year.

A local artist links racial & climate crises; a WA sheriff has to give up his guns due to a protection order; Eyman insults an un-amused Seattle City Council; are online games (and online everything) meant to be addictive? (Well, duh…)

Caffe Vita workers fired or quit over a new policy on homeless giving; did Boeing quash a preventive MAX fix to save money?; Melinda Gates vows $1B to fight the gender gap; Morrissey concert scrapped.

A local woman accuses Al Franken of past untoward behavior prior to his local ‘comeback’ gig; a Tim Eyman associate’s fined $1 million; Microsoft will keep doing business with the feds; the final Goodwill Glitter Sale.

Tula’s Jazz Club shutters; Intiman Theatre might not be saved after all; more new (weird) Amazon Echo/Alexa products are introduced; can we wish away the “tech bro”?

Two Seattle-connected people (one of whom I’ve known) win MacArthur grants; Felix Hernandez will start his last game; McCormick & Schmicks owner to buy Restaurants Unlimited; climate protesters are ordered to disperse from the state capitol.

A big airline’s sudden demise isn’t the worst of Boeing’s problems; a UW report exposes ICE atrocities; automation threatens a whole lot of WA jobs; a Seattle high school cuts history to save STEM.

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.

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.

Paul Allen’s ultra-mega-yacht’s for sale; remembering a master of altered lit-forms; local students of color state their grievances in a DIY book; a new ‘Blob’ threatens Pacific marine life.

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?

Behind the suddenly famous ‘Salmon Cannon’; a dump truck crashes into a Subway shop; the Inslee campaign’s next do-or-die deadline; how should the county spend $318 million for school kids?

Women get to sing (for now) at St. Mark’s Compline Service; more on state Rep. Matt Shea’s ‘Bible war’ pals; Lorena Gonzalez wants to rein in local PAC spending; Amazon says it can sense your fear.

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.

Lorena Gonzalez runs for state Attorney General; ‘Never Again Is Now’ rally fails to impress ICE’s local landlord (a Holocaust survivor); citizen commission rejects Durkan’s latest police-reform plan; Melinda Gates wants gender equality this century.