Local Xmas records of note; downtown crime is apparently ‘on the decline;’ area hiring remains strong despite tech layoff; massive waterfront highway gets an Indigenous ‘honorary name.’

Whim W’Him dance company takes over a Queen Anne church building; why ‘liberal’ (or ’techie’) city governments can’t house the homeless; lots of car, car/pedestrian collisions; the Starbucks union drive’s first year.

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.

Psychiatric nurse helps the homeless, and seeks help for her own burnout; more about the almost-final city budget plan; injury pauses Sunny Day Real Estate’s reunion tour; Cafe Nordo’s last act (for now).

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.

Starbucks workers strike on ‘Red Cup Day;’ how GOP pollsters exaggerated Tiffany Smiley’s chances; Native American cafe to open in Pioneer Square; state agencies prep for the possible end of Twitter.

‘Ted Lasso’ cheers on US soccer stars; alleged Ingraham shooter, 14, could be tried as an adult; City Council to debate a shrunken budget proposal; how Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won against all odds.

Students march on City Hall after Ingraham shooting; fired antivax WSU football coach sues; Amazon laying off 10,000 US corporate workers; how to save Seattle music and nightlife?

What those ‘HOMELESSNESS’ billboards are really about; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wins in 3rd Congressional District; nobody seems to want a big new airport except the planners and bureaucrats; Ingraham students staging citywide, anti-gun-violence walkout today.

Sen. Patty Murray heads a slate of winning (or currently leading) WA Dems; Ingraham High shooting kills one student; ex-mayor Nickels defends the honor of ‘wealthy, older white people’; a Jackson Street jazz legend (and interracial-marriage groundbreaker) dies at 96.

New performance venue at ex-Can Can site aims to ‘rekindle Seattle arts scene’; big midterm races go down to the wire; SPD’s ‘history of killing people with knives;’ Dungeness crab dying off due to lack of oxygen.

Sir Mix-A-Lot honored for his work helping local musicians during the shutdowns; over 300,000 folks lose power to weekend windstorms; city budget projections keep getting worse; ‘the threat to democracy is alive and well in WA state.’

Memories of the Bumbershoot arts festival’s One Reel-produced era; investigating a 2021 protest-site clash between an undercover cop and undercover deputies; should Union Station have trains again?; could Gonzaga basketball move to a major conference?

Gillian G. Gaar on Elton John (and much else); Inslee wants more housing, shelters, and sweeps; city issues a ‘dire’ revenue forecast; Amazon’s ‘Treasure Trucks’ grounded for good.

Aquarium expansion, Market-to-waterfront walkway now under construction; city sues opioid makers’ PR firm; Tacoma’s guaranteed-income program’s a temporary success; can progressives learn to at least talk persuasively to each other?