Brandi Carlile’s latest Grammy nods are outside the ‘Americana’ category; police could face discipline for past wrongdoing; King County COVID cases creep up again; Broadway clothing sellers vote pro-union.

Sixty years of the Monorail; Kirsten Harris-Talley tells why she’s leaving the Legislature; 1,300 homes to go up on Seattle Catholic Archdiocese properties; King County’s population declined in 2021 (just a little).

Seahawks’ superstar QB reportedly traded; state redistricting committee chair quits; more local companies leave Russia; WA oil refineries have bought a lot of Russian crude.

Catholic order to sell big, undeveloped Laurelhurst land tract; King County indoor-spaces vax mandate to end; Sounders FC’s practice facility to take over some ex-Boeing land; Legislative workers stage a walkout over working conditions.

At the Africatown Plaza groundbreaking; why an ‘endemic’ COVID will still be dangerous; Harrell reiterates tough-on-crime rhetoric and revives old tactics; activists claim Amazon algorithms recommend chemicals for use in suicide attempts.

Author Neal Stephenson defends utopian fiction; COVID-related staff shortages affect schools, bus service, and more; three more state senators test positive; two Cascade passes still closed.

Longtime local artist Carl Smool’s got a crowdfunding drive; Tim Eyman’s assets to be liquidated; serious cold (and maybe snow) on tap for holiday weekend; state AG Bob Ferguson isolating with COVID, as omicron variant takes hold in western WA.

Lava Lounge, and its historic building, going away; what state Sen. Doug Ericksen did besides opposing vaccines; man living under sanctuary in St. Mark’s won’t face deportation now; a sex-workers’ activist remembers the Green River Killer’s victims.

Another ‘only from Archie McPhee’ product at Xmas; Christian schools with ‘lax protocols’ lead in student COVID cases; Pacific Place ‘goes indie’ amid ‘ghost malls’ tide; remembering WA’s first Black (and non-Indigenous) settler.

Art installation combines AI technology with religion; Councilmember Mosqueda decries ‘misinformation” about proposed SPD budget cuts; is WA approaching COVID ‘herd immunity’?; Broadway will be temporarily DIckless.

Temporary ‘COVID Remembrance Project’ now underway; UW football coach Jimmy Lake’s suspended for one game; 9 percent of Boeing’s US workers want a vax exemption; how has Amazon changed fiction?

Foss Shipyard suddenly closes; state eviction moratorium ends; cash incentives offered to new SPD officers; this year’s local elections have the same big-money interests backing the same business-as-usual candidates.

Remembering a local icon of cartooning and TV; why one Black activist won’t back Bruce Harrell for mayor; court upholds state ban on forced ‘conversion therapy’ against gays; Pacific Galleries antique mall might be saved.

Firefighters’ determination is visually captured; there was another far-right rally (and counter-rally) in Portland; hospital workers endure the current COVID explosion; remembering the good news behind much of the bad news.

The new ‘Skid Road’ book’s parallels to the older one; more institutions impose vaccine requirements; controversial PCC president quits; city attorney Pete Holmes is out of the general-election race.