A million 12s (maybe) crowd the streets; we’re also one of the top protesting cities; is ‘millionaire tax’ bill being watered down to death?; ‘Cobain was murdered’ theory shows up again (sigh).

Degenerate Art Ensemble’s next multimedia performance; could WA ‘millionaire tax’ help legalize Seattle income tax?; SeaTimes business columnist Jon Talton dies; Jeff Bezos decimates Wash. Post newsroom.

More anti-ICE rallies, ‘shutdowns’ around region; SPOG’s Mike Solan refutes mayor’s anti-ICE directives; all Eddie Bauer stores said to be closing; Tim’s & Slims to join in musical harmony.

Dance producer premieres new collaboration project; Amazon laying off another 16,000 globally; Microsoft announces big profits, big AI costs; Macklemore endorses ‘National Shutdown” campaign.

Amazon suddenly closes two grocery chains, potentially creating a Central District ‘food desert’; ICE abducts dad in front of child in Shoreline; Boeing sales jump 60 percent; region loses 130,000 jobs in the past year.

WA-shot ‘Train Dreams’ up for four Oscars; we’ll soon know when we can take Seattle-Eastside light rail; bill in Legislature would make hiring a sex worker a felony; Seahawks favored to make (and win) Super Bowl.

Seahawks trounce 49ers in playoffs; heads of Social Housing Developer, City Light both fired; Seattle single-family rents up 20 percent; another fatal hookah-lounge shooting.

Old, poignant photos of migrants speak to today; SPD officers told not to interfere with ICE raids; Mayor Wilson (and Microsoft) seeking to jump-start more housing; awaiting the Seahawks’ biggest game in years.

Anti-ICE protests follow Minneapolis shooting death; police trainers accused of harassing female recruits; development plan’s breakup might save Wedgwood Broiler; UW star quarterback enters transfer portal.

County Council honors Ken Jennings; state retracts carbon-reduction claims; juvenile detention sex-abuse suits could bankrupt Pierce County; five years since the attempted domestic coup.

Remembering a produce-market owner; RFK Jr.’s said to be ‘targeting’ Seattle Children’s over trans-youth care; Katie Wilson takes office; Space Needle fireworks obscured by heavy fog.

The Ins and the Outs for the year when we (somehow, we hope) begin to get rid of the goons running and ruining everything in DC.

Ode to a favorite light-rail station; migrant farmworkers face ‘fear and uncertainty;’ Ferguson’s mostly-cuts budget plan and its discontents; the intersection of politics, religion, and AI.

Beloved Ballard dive bar closing; Stevens Pass ski area opens (but you gotta go the long way around); ICE may set even lower standards for Tacoma jail operator; we’ve had ‘our warmest December ever.’

Art by loved ones of the incarcerated; city buys Talaris property in Laurelhurst; Bush Garden reopening at new site after two-year delay; proposing a ‘180 degree turn’ approach to the climate crises.