Photographing Olympia’s unhoused; Seattle leaders mostly quiet about MAGA 2.0’s threats; Link light rail’s got a lot of deferred maintenance to catch up with; Puyallup driver gets stuck, waves for help, gets run over.

Retail chains’ shrinkage doesn’t stop shopping-season openers; SAM guards on strike; ex-local band finds its name falsely place on AI-generated music; Sounders edged out of MLS Cup playoffs.

98-year-old Black sculptor’s major show at SAM (whose guards may go on strike); Amazon workers in 20 countries to stage labor actions; ‘the Battle in Seattle’ at 25; suit over Sea-Tac pollution to proceed.

Map of Seattle’s ‘heritage trees;’ SPD ‘liaison’ accused of fencing stolen goods; Amazon workers set to protest or strike in several countries; yes, Seattle’s shelter beds are full (or close to it) every night.

Network-news tribute to ‘Seattle teriyaki;’ no Seattle schools will close after all; Paramount Theater operators buy Cornish’s Kerry Hall; Ferguson making plans to ‘combat Project 2025.’

Performance-art piece explores Native family history; more post-election ‘horror and heartbreak;’ UW president’s house and car tagged with pro-Hamas slogans; announcer Dave Sims flees Mariners for Yankees.

Newly-dedicated Jackson Street Jazz Trail; Amazon told (again) to let workers vote on unions; gov-elect Ferguson on resisting the neo-MAGA regime; what we all can/must do now.

‘Art-filled entryway’ brightens office tower lobby; ex-J&M Cafe building up for auction; remembering a beloved Capitol Hill street cat; more election fallout.

As national politics got tense/glum, local libs (and lib causes) swept the table; the just-completed Boeing strike’s economic impact; Bellingham trans teen assaulted; more remembrances of Quincy Jones.

Remembering a music legend’s Seattle roots; Machinists vote to end Boeing strike; Bell Canada buys a WA legacy phone/broadband company; oh, and something else is happening today.

Reminders of a funkier pre-tech Seattle; pre-election-day polls show a solid blue wave here; Inslee OKs 24-mile-long wind farm near Tri-Cities; Boeing CEO’s ultimatum to striking Machinists ahead of contract vote.

Jeff Bezos censors WaPo’s Presidential endorsement; Stranger fires news editor Rich Smith; ‘Boeing is running out of runway’ as strike lingers on; outspoken MAGA racist running for Pierce County sheriff.

WA’s ‘strangest gravesite;’ Seattle Schools picks four elementary schools to close; why Boeing machinists are still striking; Fall City teen charged with shooting his family.

How to drink (moderately) through a birthday; Councilmember Tanya Woo wants no-protest zones around politicians’ homes; a robotic salad shop’s opening on Capitol Hill; Fall City teen charged with killing five people.

New book collects comics of Japanese American life in Seattle; striking machinists hold big rally; famed local artist Gloria Bornstein dies; is Seattle politics really both too antagonistic AND close-knit?