The Record

Go big (across the entire country) or go home. Boeing’s latest 737 Max 8 crash is raising serious safety and training questions. How do you recover from addiction? And the queer community you might be overlooking in so-called flyover states.

Councilmember Mike O’Brien gives us an exit interview. The Not In My Backyard Olympics have come to Magnolia. And a new law could reverse decades of Native disenfranchisement in Washington State.

Young men on display: not Chippendales, but the NFL combine. Washington might ban single use plastic bags, but how should we think about the specific outcomes of our actions on creatures like orcas? And the club of people cured of HIV/AIDS seems to have just doubled in size.

In the battle for our consumerist souls: between Amazon and Marie Kondo, who will triumph? Mandatory housing affordability is not without its critics. And when you picture an environmentalist: who do you see?

Sometimes good things can come in smaller airport packages. Shrimp are sucking oyster farms into the mud; controversial new legislation would change that. The indelible leopard continues to captivate our minds. And we talk about the rise of fentanyl.

Amy Pearl of WNYC's podcast, "10 Things That Scare Me" talks about what our fears say about us. And Seattle's civic poet, Anastacia-Renee Tolbert, tells us why saying "no" can be glamorous. Plus, historian Feliks Banel tells us the story behind the Lenin statue in Fremont.

What responsibility do tech companies have when they start making weapons of war? We say farewell to the Seattle Weekly, and hello to the possibility of mandatory sex ed in Washington schools. Lastly: what do you do when someone is being harassed in public? And could that change?

Where the month fits into America’s long history with race. Renton’s school levies passed, but may still fail? Are benzos the new opioids? And is it just me, or are things a lot more problematic these days?

We put our questions (and some of your own) to two King County Judges. How long is this state of emergency likely to stand? How might compassion be harming the response to the city’s homelessness problem. And: what do you imagine about the Seattles that might have been?