Amazon coders are working on a project that could make some coding jobs obsolete; UFOs still light up Wash. skies; Inslee wants ‘clean electricity’ to power the state; Carol Channing RIP.

The Viaduct’s end becomes a big cruisin’ scene; KIRO-FM ‘talk bros’ axed; the Legislature starts minus one embattled member; why the Bezos’ split was announced when it was; the Seattle music scene’s founding mother dies.

Various folks’ post-Viaduct plans; the federal shutdown’s effects get more dire; another GOP legislator’s anti-Seattle scheme; misleading ‘spreadsheet’ smears SeaTac immigrant business owners.

UW scientists hope to decipher mouse language; Blue C Sushi dies; Bush Garden might live; state’s ski resorts get more corporate.

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.

More wistful looks at the Viaduct; did City of SeaTac price-gouge protesters for security?; more critically-ill orcas; waiting for the new Congress.

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.

Xmas thoughts as parts of Christendom implode on their own hypocrisy; more scary things to do with CGI; teacher disses online racist, gets threatened by the online racist’s fans.

“Torrey Pines” animator’s new project; abusive ex-priests sent to Spokane; Durkan’s new housing push; Redmond’s now more diverse than Seattle.

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.

Anti-HQ2 forces gather in NYC; don’t expect the Phoenix NBA team to come here; hate-crime charges follow Lynnwood bar fight; are Seattle-Tacoma ferries coming?

Inslee’s presidential hopes get clearer; Jeff Bezos goes to ‘South Park’; a local trial focuses on the rights of kids in immigration court; ‘the Hitler analogy’ gets a modern-day update.

Some CHPB neighbors want city to help pay for outside-the-gates security; waterfront neighbors don’t want to pay for big redo; Inslee’s big clean-energy plan; green-card crackdown plans denounced.

How to save rare birds who nest in lucrative trees; Inslee & Howard Schultz as a new ‘Odd Couple’; the sports concept nobody liked is coming back.