Making and hiding glass art works in Tacoma; more icky chemicals found in the Sound; a judge OKs the T-Mobile/Sprint combine; Boeing had a really lousy month saleswise.

More floods and rescues (of people and animals); the first 737 MAX recertification flight may be near; local restaurant to pay almost a half-mil to past & present workers in a city settlement; local poster artists revive the scrapped Harriet Tubman $20 bill.

Fake ‘Amazon Dating’ site launches; local woman gets off heroin after breaking a needle in her neck; King County youth jail opens soon; ex-judges warn about the ‘chilling effect’ of ICE agents at courthouses.

Car crash topples a front-yard sculpture made of rotting wood; Swedish strike to be immediately followed by lockout; some local companies won’t let employees visit China; remembering a beloved musician who apparently did himself in.

Reactions to Wednesday night’s shooting; A McKinsey report parses the local homelessness crisis; UW president tells the Davos conference about coming out; security hired for Swedish nurses’-strike replacements.

More fallout over citizens of Iranian descent detained by the feds at Blaine; Boeing ‘training pilots’ may go nonunion; another potential MAX hardware flaw’s found; the state’s presidential primary will ‘count’ this year.

The year starts sans fireworks; an Olympia legal victory for Seattle’s MHA plan; Amazon delivery contractors’ high-pressure existence; how to make lower Third Avenue safer for all.

Separate art exhibits honor historic African American men and women; ‘Real Change’ marks 25 years (its principle issue far from solved); Seahawks face the match of the year; what the next decade needs from us.

Envisioning a Bertha-like tunnel to replace I-5 downtown; what anti-authoritarian resistance should look like; City Council approves new homelessness authority; does Amazon ‘strip-mine’ other companies’ technologies?

Dept. store Santa photos’ local origin; gifted-education task force’s suggestions; Safeway & Stratolaunch now connected; another year-end honor for Megan Rapinoe & co.

A corporate buyout means New Seasons Markets is leaving Seattle; a photographer’s last goodbye to the Viaduct; cops attack anti-fascist protesters at Westlake; Sea-Tac makes rules for facial-recognition scanners.

Settlement in suit over oil spills at Columbia dams; money raised to save a threatened Catholic church; the non-money case for a wealth tax; guess where the pro-Amazon council candidates got the most votes?

Allbirds doesn’t like Amazon’s knockoff shoes; rideshare minimum wage passes city council; downtown’s holiday star will rise again; a looming Xmas tree shortage.

KOMO weather legend Steve Pool retires; hotel owner/ambassador Gordon Sondland tells on just about everybody; Children’s Hospital staff complaints about mold go way back; a podcaster ‘Indigenizes’ Seattle.

Anti I-976 lawsuit filed; Tulalip Tribes remember a ‘chief of chiefs’; Megan Rapinoe shout-outs Colin Kaepernick; high-school teacher allegedly threatens to shoot students.