CNN digs Scarecrow Video; two socialist bloggers don’t dig Sawant’s new project; Ron DeSantis names local right-winger to Fla. college’s board; a major Cascades glacier completely disappears.

Your chance to see the new Convention Center complex; activists announce City Council runs; solving homelessness will have a price tag; your chance to help me out by buying cool old stuff.

UW Dance tries to diversify both participants and curriculum; giant Convention Center addition opens at last; pro-choice march passes by two big local Catholic institutions; a wish to bring NW passenger rail back to the ‘50s.

March, rally, museum re-opening, and other MLK Day observances; pot-biz exec to challenge Councilmember Sawant; Seattle Schools ban students from using ChatGPT; homeless deaths in Seattle area reach a grim record.

Papercut artist Nikki McClure’s ‘slices’ of real life; Seattle Center picked to run new waterfront park; more area tech layoffs; Starbucks orders office workers back.

‘Ski South Lake Union’ art installations end today; LoFi music venue closing in April after 20 years; almost 200,000 sq.ft. of Seattle office space now up for sub-lease; Amazon’s layoffs ‘represent a new mindset’ at the company.

Our recent weird weather’s many nasty effects; the public tragedy behind crowdfunding for medical bills; how Amazon’s helping secure Ukraine’s government data; who’s been vandalizing electric substations?

‘Kindred’ miniseries alters Octavia Butler’s time-travel story; Margaret Atwood on the true meaning of Solstice; remembering Seattle’s homeless deaths in the past year; state Supreme Court to rule on transit fare enforcement.

Comix artist Jon Strongbow RIP; Inslee wants to ban assault weapons; could offshore wind towers threaten whales?; 83 percent of WA kids have had COVID.

Maps show different communities’ carbon outputs; Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer acquitted of making false accusations against a Black newspaper carrier; Inslee proposes a $70 billion, two-year budget; will electric cars kill the radio star?

Tom Dyer’s 40-song ode to Oly; marking 10 years since the same-sex wedding spectacular at City Hall; window shot at Renton drag-queen story hour site; FTC sues to stop Microsoft from taking over Activision Blizzard.

1875 shipwreck remains found off WA coast; gun background-check law may finally get enforced; magic-mushroom therapy begins in Oregon; faulty Xmas-tree lights cause major house fire.

Margarethe Cammermeyer’s story retold to mark 10 years of marriage equality; Ed Troyer trial testimony gets ‘absurd;’ Amazon layoff levels could grow; UW’s star quarterback will be back.

MOHAI marks a decade at South Lake Union amid a vastly-changing city; budget bill passes, but city will still need to find more revenue; Everett Herald cuts back on print editions; someone stole the stuffed cougar from Vito’s.

Science fiction author Greg Bear RIP; local reactions to deadly Colorado gay-bar shooting; troopers kill man who stole and rolled-over a semi on I-5; Tammy Morales wants a social-housing program back in he city budget.