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.

One of the last three Seattle video stores gives up the good fight; footage is posted of the 12/31 police shooting; big vacancies at Seattle apartments; Viadoom phase one begins.

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.

One of Seattle’s least-known museums revealed; a new SDOT director’s picked; new attempts to save the salmon; are our orcas too antisocial?

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.

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

UW scientists’ ‘brain interface’; sorting out the new minimum-wage study; Bellevue PD chief cleared of assault claims; the ‘city that had too much money’ (not us).

One of Seattle’s (and the world’s) most prominent people passes. Also: KeyArena razing starts; more deliberate far-right violence; dams vs. orcas.

Saving Beacon Hill’s Garden House; men talk about #MeToo; eviction horror stories; can the tech biz solve our region’s tech-biz-created problems?

Whose land are we really on?

Is climate change already inevitable?

Why is autumn air so wonderful?

A musical mash-up of Morrissey and workout-DVD reviews (!); the Storm’s righteous total triumph; detained immigrant youth at risk of abuse; local tourism biz deals with shutoff of public ad money.

A plan would restore an estuary by killing Olympia’s Capitol Lake; Seattle teachers OK a possible strike; KingCo deputies under-report ‘acts of force’; recalling the days of ‘Reds’ in the NW.

Ballard library’s newly anti-homeless exterior; smokestorm as a metaphor for urban limitations; ‘Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’ as a horror story.

Drone video of the Sodo Busway murals; local air’s still dreadful; crane crews on strike; claims of sexual-assault cover-up at a summer camp.