Amazon coders are working on a project that could make some coding jobs obsolete; UFOs still light up Wash. skies; Inslee wants ‘clean electricity’ to power the state; Carol Channing RIP.

The Viaduct’s end becomes a big cruisin’ scene; KIRO-FM ‘talk bros’ axed; the Legislature starts minus one embattled member; why the Bezos’ split was announced when it was; the Seattle music scene’s founding mother dies.

‘Designer grunge’ guy rips off Nirvana; various folks’ 2019 predictions; another fatal police shooting; Huskies’ Rose Bowl comeback try falls short.

For the 33rd year, what will become “Yay” and “Meh” over the next twelve months.

The Public Safety Building block will remain a hole in the ground for now; various year-end thoughts about the city, state, and nation; should/could public transit be free?

How to save rare birds who nest in lucrative trees; Inslee & Howard Schultz as a new ‘Odd Couple’; the sports concept nobody liked is coming back.

Making a statement about a disappearing community; home prices still fall; state’s foster-care crisis gets worse; another City Council vacancy looms.

Christopher Rufo’s (comparatively light) troll trash talk; should a library sell off NW native artifacts?; a City Council legend dies at 96.

‘100 Years of Seattle Activism’; still more HQ2 ranting; Mariners stadium’s new name (just maybe); the tariff war’s local victims.

Amazon’s new campuses and their discontents; can a big new methanol plant lead to less carbon emission?; what we don’t know about killed and missing indigenous women.

Protesting the Big A’s ties to ICE; the homeless crisis sparks violent incidents; a Yakama tribal leader’s not allowed at the US Supreme Court; will HQ2 end the local housing mega-boom?

UPS returns to bike couriers (sort of); really dangerous volcanoes are right here; ex-Gov. Locke disputes Rossi’s ’03 budget claims; autumn truly arrives at long last.

UW scientists’ ‘brain interface’; sorting out the new minimum-wage study; Bellevue PD chief cleared of assault claims; the ‘city that had too much money’ (not us).

Seattle’s historic (and beautiful) Labor Temple is apparently doomed; another Showbox reprieve (for now); more GOP dirty election tricks; my Halloween costume picks.

Loving the Viaduct in its last months; state Supreme Court says kids shouldn’t get life in prison without parole; can a smartphone app help keep people off drugs?