After the Big Snow, get ready for the Big Melt; the Lava Lounge building gets closer to demolition; Sen. Murray says she was ‘within inches’ of the Capitol mob; the state reports 1 million vaccine shots.

Dina Martina’s V-Day greetings; waiting for the snow to get more serious; more of the state gets into a ‘phase 2’ reopening; could either or both of 2017’s temp-mayors run for the office this year?

Rapinoe & Bird, Wilson & Ciara as lovebird role models; waiting for snow’s big promise/threat; Tim Eyman fined and banned from political fundraising; a local inventor’s crosswalks light up under your feet.

Health worker turns body bags into traditional Native dresses; women’s group wants a GOP pol off of the state Redistricting Commission; could QB Russell Wilson want to leave the Seahawks?; snow might show up, fear of snow is already here.

Cartoonist watches old TV in a modern (COVID) context; one of Seattle’s last big record stores will close; NIMBY homeowners seek landmark protection for most of Wallingford; Black Brilliance Research Project cuts ties with King County Equity Now.

A new multimedia exhibit explores the ‘Black Imagination;’ the real Amazon problem(s) its new boss is inheriting; local hospitals got counterfeit N95 masks; a GOP Congressman has a plan to breach the Snake River dams.

Retro civic-PR art from a ‘Department of Design;’ no cruise ships to Canada (or, likely, Seattle) this year; Lorena Gonzalez’s last rival wants the Council seat she’s leaving to run for mayor; judge overseeing SPD reform warns against major restructuring without his OK.

Drive to replace Marcus Whitman’s DC Capitol statue with one of a Native-rights activist; claims of deliberate meddling in state unemployment system; City Council President Lorena Gonzalez runs for mayor; Amazon’s next CEO is a thorough ‘tech bro.’

Bezos to leave Amazon’s helm as company’s HQ2 gets a strange ‘Helix’ structure; SAM fires its beloved film guru; another local clinic hit by systemic-racism claims against its management; Durkan won’t veto grocery ‘hazard pay.’

Small-town residents want conspiracy-cult-promoting mayor out; big state unemployment data breach; the case for a ‘wealth tax;’ why Amazon can’t make hit games.

The first truly new blue pigment in ages comes on the paint market; ex-Evergreen profs turned ‘intellectual dark web’ celebs spread COVID lies, while right-wing militia people invade a Southwest Wash. hospital; activists for the homeless try to take over another hotel.

Remembering the Spanish Castle roadhouse; local bars, restaurants, and gyms can re-reopen Monday; protests try to stop encampment sweep outside Bellingham city hall; WA’s history of strife, battle, and survival.

The Duwamish fear getting left out of a bill mandating native history in schools; Amazon’s global workforce tops 1 million; Alaska Air’s pivot-to-cargo plan flops; the rich and connected try to cut in vaccine lines.

Inaugural poem set to a local funk-rock track; waiting lists for vaccine-clinic helpers are getting as long as those for the vaccines themselves; Tacoma police SUV runs over street-race spectators; Microsoft’s developing chatbots based on dead people.

The dawn of a new DC administration draws reactions from friends and foes (who aren’t all on the right); vaccine progress remains slow; UW men’s basketball finally wins a conference game; is Olympia Beer going away?