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).

UW students devise another big plan for the National Guard Interbay site; Swedish nurses set a strike date; is Sprint doomed without the T-Mobile merger?; the side of MLK we need now.

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.

Places near here that got big snow still have problems from it; a bill in Olympia would complicate changes to local schools’ gifted programs; big grants to three local radical artists; the threat of a ‘tech Cold War.’

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.

A 30-vehicle crash and more power outages result from the winter blast; Sawant blasts Amazon again; Durkan defends police again; anti-trans meeting’s still on at the downtown library.

Some places get a little snow, others a lot; Seahawks’ last comeback try falls short; Boeing accused of deliberately hiding MAX system revisions just to save on pilot training; (most) crime in Seattle’s way down.

Will we get snow? (maybe), icy coldness? (oh yeah); more damaging Boeing internal documents unearthed; Jay Inslee’s witty snap-back to Tim Eyman; UW medical residents take a ‘wellness day off.’

The struggle to get even one Latinx lawmaker elected in Yakima; waiting for the threat/promise of snow; Bernie Sanders gets some local endorsements; why’s the news been so darn heavy these days?

A 737 crashes between the two key countries in current US national scandals; how Seattle NIMBYs exploit a state environmental law; PCC takes over the grocery spot in the big 23rd & Union project. Seattle’s decade in (non-)fashionability.

More fallout over citizens of Iranian descent detained by the feds at Blaine; Boeing ‘training pilots’ may go nonunion; another potential MAX hardware flaw’s found; the state’s presidential primary will ‘count’ this year.

Protesting the next war at its potential start while Americans of Iranian descent get detained at Blaine; my days with the (now-splintering) Methodists; what NY State promised Amazon for half of HQ2; the Seahawks move forward.

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.

The year starts sans fireworks; an Olympia legal victory for Seattle’s MHA plan; Amazon delivery contractors’ high-pressure existence; how to make lower Third Avenue safer for all.

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