More virus updates & reactions (I know); a mystery initiative campaign’s mystery donor; fishers are cute, carnivorous, and back in WA; can the city save small businesses (without giving ’em money)?

Local photog’s shots of national & local black ‘luminaries’; city’s LEAD program renewed after all; Expedia lays off hundreds after just moving their offices; we’re the US’s 9th most liberal city.

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)).

A Dexter Ave. tower project indirectly honors a local TV legend; art collector/advocate Virginia Wright RIP; lessons from PBS’s Amazon exposé; payroll-tax bill dies in Legislature (but perhaps not fatally).

Meet the Liberty Bank Building’s mural artist; judge rules against most of anti-I-976 suit; Sawant’s ‘Tax Amazon’ plan now has specifics; imagining what won’t be in Sea-Tac’s new ‘Capitol Hill Food Court’.

Finding sonic gold in ‘NW sound’ pioneer Kearney Barton’s tapes; flooding/mudslide effects remain; Durkan’s running again; will Bezos become a bigtime art collector?

The Pacific Science Center’s laser shows are run by real live artists (imagine!); the state ramps up its coronavirus response; a leaked memo sheds info on Blaine border detainments; Amazon’s now worth $1 trillion (in stock value) and has almost 800,000 global workers.

Car crash topples a front-yard sculpture made of rotting wood; Swedish strike to be immediately followed by lockout; some local companies won’t let employees visit China; remembering a beloved musician who apparently did himself in.

Swedish nurses’ strike begins; more toxic chemicals found in local waters; what hasn’t already worked on Third Avenue (more police); one more reason to dislike Amazon techies (giant umbrellas).

A local benefit concert that benefits its own local musicians (who need it); more downtown-shooting reactions; Alex Pedersen scoffs at the City Council’s anti-injustice resolutions; the feds decide to close the Northwest’s only National Archives facility.

Some parts of the region will get a bunch of snow, maybe; Boeing had more orders canceled than delivered in ’19; Sawant’s latest ‘Tax Amazon’ plan still isn’t fully revealed; Ken Jennings disses Courtney Love.

MOHAI’s got a miniature Mont-Saint-Michel plus an AI virtual tour; Amazon threatens to fire workers who question its climate response; Swedish nurses are closer to a strike; Bill Gates sez folks like him should pay more taxes.

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.

A corporate buyout means New Seasons Markets is leaving Seattle; a photographer’s last goodbye to the Viaduct; cops attack anti-fascist protesters at Westlake; Sea-Tac makes rules for facial-recognition scanners.

Duff McKagan’s video spotlight on the homeless; it’s already time for a new police labor deal; just how regressive our local taxes are; Puget Sound was supposed to be healthy by now (it’s not).