Remembering a Monkee; the cost of getting toxic wood out of the sound; rent control progresses in OR; an update on our big-little fund drive.

Durkan sez now’s the time to build the city we want; Alaska Air’s inherited lawsuit; one fewer City Council candidate; Oregon could let 16-year-olds vote.

Amazon doesn’t (heart) NY after all; state AG Bob Ferguson vows to fight any border-wall emergency order; a tale of race riots in Eastern Washington’s past; an important correction.

The big snow melt has big effects; REI’s boss suddenly quits; the Gateses talk about saving minority youth; two more light-rail tunnels could cost $2 billion more than bridges.

Neighbours dance club’s building sold; Bruce Harrell to leave the City Council; Inslee wants public-option health care; Mounties trash BC pipeline blockades.

Indigenous artist offers a different take on superheroes; Eyman still wants to kill transit; Rep. Adam Smith hates the border-wall scheme; another windstorm wreaks havoc.

The Public Safety Building block will remain a hole in the ground for now; various year-end thoughts about the city, state, and nation; should/could public transit be free?

Red pandas temporarily escape their zoo enclosure; state Supreme Court OKs youth-jail funding; black hotel guest proves he’s a paid guest, gets kicked out anyway.

Faiths come together to help out on the holiday; good news for (some) local fish stocks; hotel-worker protections shut down; what Boxing Day means to me.

Remembering all the orcas caught for display in private aquaria; Inslee’s new budget (and tax) plan; Amazon wants to put a spy-cam on your doorbell; Dave Reichert’s a GOP suck-up to the end.

Brighten your winter day with cargo-container art; a (too simple?) solution to Hanford waste; City Council candidate doesn’t officially live in town.

‘100 Years of Seattle Activism’; still more HQ2 ranting; Mariners stadium’s new name (just maybe); the tariff war’s local victims.

Partial election returns for a night of partial victories; are two Amazon HQ2s good for Seattle?; was an immigrant deported for talking about his detention conditions?

Making Dungeons & Dragons less mono-gendered; the death of a local jazz legend; prayers for healing and compassion at a Seattle synagogue; a bike-share company wants to add cars.

UPS returns to bike couriers (sort of); really dangerous volcanoes are right here; ex-Gov. Locke disputes Rossi’s ’03 budget claims; autumn truly arrives at long last.