Coalition tries to help street people (not just scatter them); protest wants county jail closed due to ‘inhumane’ conditions; could Bezos want to buy the Seahawks?; no, affluent white males are not today’s biggest victims.

American Girl’s two new ‘1999 Seattle’ dolls; Mudede on what (really) makes a vibrant city (hint: it’s not upscale retail); one neighborhood that wants a light-rail station; serious snow could appear in Seattle this weekend.

Online map grades Seattle neighborhoods by ‘walkability;’ social housing measure leads in early returns; a big Boeing deal with Air India (which makes an even bigger deal with Airbus); do ‘crumb rubber’ sports fields cause cancer?

Vintage store enters the ‘metaverse;’ WA schools are now ‘majority minority;’ feds say city can’t just sit on unspent City Center Collector trolley grants; UW researchers say ‘love’ really is a drug.

Seattle crime stats beyond the scary headlines; Microsoft adds AI shticks to searches (as expected); a traffic death is allegedly due to a DUI forklift operator; a downtown cineplex might not close after all.

Airing a seldom-heard voice in the homeless crisis (that of an actual homeless person); works by local Black artists you can see (and some you can’t yet); FTC may sue Amazon; another hunger strike at the ICE jail in Tacoma.

‘Fatlesque’ celebrates diverse bodies ‘in a big way’; we’ve got lots of ‘house rich/cash poor’ folk; new Public Health boss warns about COVID funding cuts’ repercussions; what some folks want from the now-underway Legislature.

Chess Club as the new midweek bar craze; Amazon’s projected layoffs climb to 18,000 globally; Tina Podlodowski quits as state Democratic chair; Harrell’s vow to have 2,000 fewer unhoused people in a year falls short.

The innies and outies for a prime-number year.

Local comix creators’ LGBTQ protagonists; is Twitter closing its Seattle office?; biotech ex-CEO won’t be charged with assaulting his then-wife; some year-end thoughts.

Our recent weird weather’s many nasty effects; the public tragedy behind crowdfunding for medical bills; how Amazon’s helping secure Ukraine’s government data; who’s been vandalizing electric substations?

‘Kindred’ miniseries alters Octavia Butler’s time-travel story; Margaret Atwood on the true meaning of Solstice; remembering Seattle’s homeless deaths in the past year; state Supreme Court to rule on transit fare enforcement.

Wing Luke exhibit connects WWII internment camps with other ethnic struggles; a little snow around here can still cause big problems; hopes for sentencing reform in the next Legislature; how private-equity firms bleed (sometimes fatally) the companies they buy.

Comix artist Jon Strongbow RIP; Inslee wants to ban assault weapons; could offshore wind towers threaten whales?; 83 percent of WA kids have had COVID.

Tom Dyer’s 40-song ode to Oly; marking 10 years since the same-sex wedding spectacular at City Hall; window shot at Renton drag-queen story hour site; FTC sues to stop Microsoft from taking over Activision Blizzard.