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.

A corporate buyout means New Seasons Markets is leaving Seattle; a photographer’s last goodbye to the Viaduct; cops attack anti-fascist protesters at Westlake; Sea-Tac makes rules for facial-recognition scanners.

City Council approves big aquarium expansion; 737 MAX ‘whistleblower’ to testify; Megan Rapinoe gets another big honor; a plea to cartoonist David Horsey.

Settlement in suit over oil spills at Columbia dams; money raised to save a threatened Catholic church; the non-money case for a wealth tax; guess where the pro-Amazon council candidates got the most votes?

Lessons & legacy of the World Trade Org. protests; a judge stops I-976 for now; Gordon Sondland accused of sexual misconduct; Seattle’s Watergate hero Bill Ruckelshaus RIP.

Delta Airlines phases in ‘facial recognition’ at Sea-Tac; one of the great ‘grunge’-era show photographers finally has a book out; how an Eyman for governor campaign would work out; Bumbershoot’s literary-arts queen RIP.

Anti I-976 lawsuit filed; Tulalip Tribes remember a ‘chief of chiefs’; Megan Rapinoe shout-outs Colin Kaepernick; high-school teacher allegedly threatens to shoot students.

City Councilmember Kshama Sawant rises again; Sounders make winning the MLS Cup look easy; Congress members have another ‘concern’ over the 737 MAX; the Centralia Massacre a century later.

AEG wants out of running Bumbershoot; outdoor-wear maven Gert Boyle dies; the Snoqualmie Tribe buys Salish Lodge and nearby lands; our long local political trudge is almost over.

The cost of hatchery salmon (and hence of dams); Starbucks to host voter events; UW College Republicans lose their charter; long live Dia de los Muertos.

Recalling civic booster Jim Ellis’s career and crusades; Boeing earnings tumble; Kshama Sawant writes in Teen Vogue; the volunteers in a trailer who help the people just released from the ICE jail.

A rally to stop shootings; a task force blames both Boeing, FAA for letting the MAX fly; math isn’t racist but the way it’s taught can be; so much housing being built around here, so little of it ‘affordable.’

A city legal settlement means trouble for attempts to save the Showbox; City Market’s site’s marked for development; ‘Seattle’ mag publisher files for bankruptcy; Boeing wants in on the budding space-tourism biz.

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.

That local ad jingle you still can’t forget; is bus riding really that dangerous? (a driver says no); addressing built-in bias in school gifted programs; how ‘tree rustlers’ allegedly started a big wildfire.