How Seattle’s bygone Queen of Neon was rediscovered; Re-bar at 30; Bumbershoot Lives! (in some form); another big ruling against Tim Eyman (whom Republicans still (heart symbol)).

The Stranger’s moving into the old Crescent Spice building; local CEOs endorse payroll-tax bill; Cinerama theater shuttered again; aren’t you glad WA doesn’t have Presidential caucuses any more?

KUOW tries to make public radio a little less lily-white; how King County got re-namesaked in 1986; Cornish College’s first black president sees himself as a ‘preacher for the arts’; Felix Hernandez tries a comeback (with Atlanta).

University Book Store turns 120; Gov. Inslee’s carbon-cap law partly survives state Supreme Court; Microsoft vows to become ‘carbon negative’; Julia Sweeney defends her ‘Pat’ character as more ‘annoying’ than androgynous.

What will emerge and ebb during the twelve months in which many things must change.

The local decade in review, for better and for worse; Microsoft blames a data breach on N. Koreans; more robots just make life worse for Amazon warehouse workers; high winds could cancel our NYE fireworks.

Dennis Muilenburg isn’t Boeing’s CEO anymore; Marshawn Lynch is a Seahawk again; ghosts of Christian punk rockers past; reclaiming Christmas (and Jesus) from authoritarian forces.

Cosmic Crisp apple shows up in stores; ’60 Minutes’ airs its Seattle-homelessness story; Northgate’s lonely last holiday; more WTO protest memories.

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.

KOMO weather legend Steve Pool retires; hotel owner/ambassador Gordon Sondland tells on just about everybody; Children’s Hospital staff complaints about mold go way back; a podcaster ‘Indigenizes’ Seattle.

The Seattle City Council wasn’t “flipped” (not completely at least); the TV station you all thought was Fox-owned now is Fox-owned; Tom Douglas workers get a cash settlement (plus gift cards).

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.

Highbrow pundits on Amazon’s present and future; Time magazine notices the Seattle City Council battle; the Stranger campaign ‘endorsement’ that wasn’t; a Boeing-Porsche flying car project.

Trashing an RV as a hate-filled ‘statement’; big support for burned-out Ballard businesses; Durkan’s ‘traffic czar’ may be leaving; could the 737 MAX be back by January?

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.