Right-wing talker Dori Monson loses Seahawks game-day gig; Seahawks respond with the comeback win of the year; Microsoft workers can largely stay home-based into next year; deputies may have shot Tommy Le when he was already face-down.

More on the Elephant Car Wash’s demise and the fate of its classic neon; state’s top court nixes Durkan recall drive; remembering a local gay-rights pioneer; a poll shows big support for Black Lives Matter protests.

Promoting Black liberation at a ‘healing farm;’ cinemas can reopen (but many won’t); Congressional report says Amazon has ‘monopoly power’ over many sellers and suppliers; Storm makes getting a fourth WNBA crown look easy.

Museum of Museums finally nears opening; Inslee disses White House COVID ‘downplaying;’ Seattle may have the fewest COVID infections of any big US city; a venerable local charity’s slick/bland ‘rebranding.’

Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme make a streaming holiday special; will we ever get to a ‘phase 3’ reopening?; 16 arrests at another Capitol Hill protest; gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp’s book compares gun laws to the Holocaust.

A local dancer’s tale of depression, drink, and survival; COVID outbreak at Salish Lodge; Durkan to disband Navigation Team after all; Inslee threatens Boeing’s tax breaks if it moves 787 work out of Everett.

More snarking at AG William Barr’s anti-Seattle screed; City Council overrides Durkan budget veto; racism ‘rife’ among King County Corrections workers; Boeing’s ‘COVID-zapping wand’ goes mass-market.

Celebrating Hendrix’s legacy to today’s artists (and others); R.B. Ginsburg’s legacy to today’s women (and others); report clears SPD in child-pepper-spraying case; Seattle’s smoke’s gone but WA’s wildfires remain.

PayPal, Archie McPhee, federal sanctions, and a strange Xmas ornament; ‘unprecedented’ toxic air in the region; William Barr wanted to prosecute Durkan for not cracking down on CHOP hard or fast enough; local COVID numbers ‘have never looked better.’

The coughs just keep a-comin’ as some big fires slow down; schools might consider reopening as COVID declines in WA (except Pullman); a debt crisis looms for renters; a Black Lives Matter group voices ‘concerns’ about some City Council members.

Waiting for our worst-in-the-world air to clear as wildfires slow down; Pier 58 couldn’t wait to be dismantled; the case for state deficit spending in a crisis; Seahawks win season opener while Storm drops to #2 playoff seed; steady COVID progress continues (so ‘why does it feel like we’re stuck?’).

Posed photos depict a Black Everywoman front and center; wildfires are still as bad while toxic smoke gets worse; who’s backing the ‘Recall Sawant’ drive?; 19 years ago today wasn’t the worst thing to happen in America in our lifetimes.

A horrible couple of days for fires, smoke, winds, evacuations, and power outages throughout WA; more remote-schooling glitches; City Council approves scooter rental pilot program; SPD reform efforts get a new court-appointed ‘monitor.’

A local sci-fi author imagines transforming ‘oppressors’ into ‘kin;’ a techie dad parses the tech glitches facing remote schooling; a wildfire destroys a small eastern-WA town; a local sports broadcasting legend dies.

Confessions from a ‘guerrilla bike collective;’ alleged Portland shooter is himself fatally shot by federal agents; landlords sue against anti-eviction rules; calls to Suicide Hotline ‘surge.'”