More virus updates & reactions (I know); a mystery initiative campaign’s mystery donor; fishers are cute, carnivorous, and back in WA; can the city save small businesses (without giving ’em money)?

A Dexter Ave. tower project indirectly honors a local TV legend; art collector/advocate Virginia Wright RIP; lessons from PBS’s Amazon exposé; payroll-tax bill dies in Legislature (but perhaps not fatally).

Making and hiding glass art works in Tacoma; more icky chemicals found in the Sound; a judge OKs the T-Mobile/Sprint combine; Boeing had a really lousy month saleswise.

A for-profit “selfie museum” lets you show yourself in various artsy settings; a Super Bowl ad salutes Police Chief Best; lotsa floods & mudslides in the region; Ballard P-Patch ‘saved’ for $1.95 million.

The Pacific Science Center’s laser shows are run by real live artists (imagine!); the state ramps up its coronavirus response; a leaked memo sheds info on Blaine border detainments; Amazon’s now worth $1 trillion (in stock value) and has almost 800,000 global workers.

Car crash topples a front-yard sculpture made of rotting wood; Swedish strike to be immediately followed by lockout; some local companies won’t let employees visit China; remembering a beloved musician who apparently did himself in.

Reactions to Wednesday night’s shooting; A McKinsey report parses the local homelessness crisis; UW president tells the Davos conference about coming out; security hired for Swedish nurses’-strike replacements.

Anti-Marxist spray paint at St. Mark’s; another stupid shooting, this time in the heart of downtown at the evening commute; coronavirus-fueled face-mask buying frenzy; Tacoma doesn’t like Sea-Tac promoted as SEA.

Photos of the Viaduct’s last days; we’ve got the first US case of Wuhan coronavirus; did the Saudi crown prince hack Jeff Bezos’ cell phone?; a gas thief starts a big leak from a city-owned gas tank into Longfellow Creek.

KUOW tries to make public radio a little less lily-white; how King County got re-namesaked in 1986; Cornish College’s first black president sees himself as a ‘preacher for the arts’; Felix Hernandez tries a comeback (with Atlanta).

UW students devise another big plan for the National Guard Interbay site; Swedish nurses set a strike date; is Sprint doomed without the T-Mobile merger?; the side of MLK we need now.

MOHAI’s got a miniature Mont-Saint-Michel plus an AI virtual tour; Amazon threatens to fire workers who question its climate response; Swedish nurses are closer to a strike; Bill Gates sez folks like him should pay more taxes.

More downtown chain stores are shuttering; are some anti-trans ‘feminists’ really right-wingers?; a prosecutor’s ‘egregious misconduct’ in Snohomish County; the Seahawks come within one play of victory again.

Darn, it’s been sure wet around here lately; state Rep. Matt Shea says he won’t resign; Mayor Durkan wants ‘biometric tracking’ of homeless folk thru social services; does Dennis Muilenburg have what it takes to see Boeing thru the 737 MAX crisis?

Microsoft joins the deliberately “ugly” holiday sweater craze; how the Pike Place newsstand could be saved; two local rock promoters pass on; (some) non-passengers will get to enter Sea-Tac’s concourses.