Making and hiding glass art works in Tacoma; more icky chemicals found in the Sound; a judge OKs the T-Mobile/Sprint combine; Boeing had a really lousy month saleswise.

More floods and rescues (of people and animals); the first 737 MAX recertification flight may be near; local restaurant to pay almost a half-mil to past & present workers in a city settlement; local poster artists revive the scrapped Harriet Tubman $20 bill.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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

The local decade in review, for better and for worse; Microsoft blames a data breach on N. Koreans; more robots just make life worse for Amazon warehouse workers; high winds could cancel our NYE fireworks.

WSDOT finally gets its wish to raze the Montlake Blvd. Market; Lime Bikes to go away (at least for now); more damaging 737 MAX documents show up; why 12/26 should be as revered as 12/25.

Darn, it’s been sure wet around here lately; state Rep. Matt Shea says he won’t resign; Mayor Durkan wants ‘biometric tracking’ of homeless folk thru social services; does Dennis Muilenburg have what it takes to see Boeing thru the 737 MAX crisis?

Envisioning a Bertha-like tunnel to replace I-5 downtown; what anti-authoritarian resistance should look like; City Council approves new homelessness authority; does Amazon ‘strip-mine’ other companies’ technologies?

Microsoft joins the deliberately “ugly” holiday sweater craze; how the Pike Place newsstand could be saved; two local rock promoters pass on; (some) non-passengers will get to enter Sea-Tac’s concourses.

What the waters off the Northwest coast sound like; private surveillance cams in a low-crime (but high-fear) neighborhood; Amazon’s fast-delivery mania leads to slower deliveries; Bill Nye’s suing Disney.

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).