Wiazrds of the Coast backs off from rumored major changes to ‘D&D’ licensing; south-county shooter’s reported racist explanation for his acts; sexual-assault allegations made against a local documentary maker; Kraken on a roll, Seahawks on a stop.

Metro celebrates 50 years, as business promoters suggest revamping downtown bus routes; another City Councilmember’s quitting this year; do WA folk really have higher than average sexual ‘body counts’?

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.

Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe’s new media company to cover ‘revolutionaries’; next city housing levy could be a big ask; Metro cancels many runs due to faulty buses; MS, Amazon both get pieces of new Pentagon cloud-computing deal.

Last Boeing 747 leaves assembly line; appeals court upholds most counts against Tim Eyman; First Baptist Church puts its land up for sale; is Amazon turning its back on customer experience?

Psychiatric nurse helps the homeless, and seeks help for her own burnout; more about the almost-final city budget plan; injury pauses Sunny Day Real Estate’s reunion tour; Cafe Nordo’s last act (for now).

Fantagraphics marks 40 years of ‘Love & Rockets;’ a local memorial to traffic deaths had to update its numbers; Rep. Jayapal doesn’t like the big supermarket-merger plan; Starbucks closing another unionized store, again supposedly over ‘safety concerns.’

What those ‘HOMELESSNESS’ billboards are really about; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wins in 3rd Congressional District; nobody seems to want a big new airport except the planners and bureaucrats; Ingraham students staging citywide, anti-gun-violence walkout today.

‘Typewriter eraser’ sculpture leaves town in Paul Allen estate’s big art sale; student advocates don’t want cops back in schools; bus fatally runs over pedestrian; Amazon cutting more units.

New performance venue at ex-Can Can site aims to ‘rekindle Seattle arts scene’; big midterm races go down to the wire; SPD’s ‘history of killing people with knives;’ Dungeness crab dying off due to lack of oxygen.

Gillian G. Gaar on Elton John (and much else); Inslee wants more housing, shelters, and sweeps; city issues a ‘dire’ revenue forecast; Amazon’s ‘Treasure Trucks’ grounded for good.

Aquarium expansion, Market-to-waterfront walkway now under construction; city sues opioid makers’ PR firm; Tacoma’s guaranteed-income program’s a temporary success; can progressives learn to at least talk persuasively to each other?

Peter Bacho’s book on growing up Filipino in Seattle; more wildfires mean more smoke; four city Human Rights Commission members quit; domestic-violence survivor fired from Amazon when she asks for time off to recover.

Another concept for ‘reviving’ Third Ave.; Mariners drag it out to the bitter (elongated) end; grocery clerks’ union opposes Kroger/Albertsons merger; King County scraps expanded-shelter plan in SoDo.

Local doc profiles railway tycoon James Hill; labor judge slams Starbucks’ union busting; Nazi-sympathetic blogger had short-lived job with state GOP; security guard reportedly assaults handcuffed woman.