NEWS: It's a banner week for The Stranger's so-called news team: ELI SANDERS offers a sympathetic update on the ongoing legal troubles of "Baghdad" Jim McDermott, THOMAS FRANCIS boohoos about school closures, ERICA C. BARNETT reports on the push for police-accountability reform by the Seattle City Council, and DAN SAVAGE lisps and whinnies about Ron Sims's admittedly stupid bus plan. My dear friend President Hu is right: Some journalists belong in prison. PLUS: In the Hall, In Other News, In Other Neighborhoods, and Police Beat

FEATURE: The Nonprofit Motive MATTHEW RICHTER explains why he believes all nonprofit organizations are on their collective deathbed. Why would The Stranger devote so many pages to such tripe? There's certainly no dearth of newsworthy feature subjects. For example, for the past 16 months, The Stranger's been counting down the days until the end of George W. Bush's presidential career. (It's that tiny number under the title on the front cover.) This week, the number finally dips below 1,000. Certainly some reflection on the final thousand days of the nation's greatest modern president would be of greater journalistic import than a gazillion-word feature on 501(c)3s and "charitable deductibility." But alas, this is The Stranger, and I suppose we should count our blessings that Richter's face-numbing feature at least doesn't contain any fisting.