Gov. Inslee’s White House run starts; a big Durkan/Sawant spat; Sound Transit funding’s still not safe; rents here aren’t rising AS fast as before.

Regressive taxation and other longtime WA traditions; waiting for Inslee’s announcement; high-rise condos under construction in the Intl. District; March comes in like a…?

Newly-found film of the ‘Galloping Gertie’ bridge collapse; Inslee could announce for Prez Friday; GOP lawmakers hate sex-ed and Seattle; what’ll Amazon pull out of next?

Microsoft workers don’t want the army to get MS’s HoloLens headsets; legislators try to cripple Sound Transit (again); Dow Constantine might run for Gov.; more thanx for your very kind support.

Remembering a Monkee; the cost of getting toxic wood out of the sound; rent control progresses in OR; an update on our big-little fund drive.

Remembering Northwest photo master Mary Randlett; the Lava Lounge and neighbors are threatened with removal again; women’s-soccer Reign headed south; still more Howard Schultz dissing.

A new museum show remembers McNeil Island prison; the federal shutdown’s over (for now); why WSDOT’s buying ads for the Bertha tunnel; a bakery owner apologizes for a ‘Build the Wall’ cookie.

It’s 100 years since Seattle’s General Strike; the dreaded Viadoom’s still not here; a big settlement follows an SFD ambulance crash; is the shutdown making airports less safe?

One of the last three Seattle video stores gives up the good fight; footage is posted of the 12/31 police shooting; big vacancies at Seattle apartments; Viadoom phase one begins.

Faiths come together to help out on the holiday; good news for (some) local fish stocks; hotel-worker protections shut down; what Boxing Day means to me.

Inslee’s presidential hopes get clearer; Jeff Bezos goes to ‘South Park’; a local trial focuses on the rights of kids in immigration court; ‘the Hitler analogy’ gets a modern-day update.

UW dental faculty denounce budget cuts; we’ll know today about NHL in Seattle; judge’s police-reform questions; state tenant-rights bill coming.

Brighten your winter day with cargo-container art; a (too simple?) solution to Hanford waste; City Council candidate doesn’t officially live in town.

A Christmas tree ornament for our time; tribes vs. oil pipeline redux; new City Council candidates; what’s in a (potato chip) name?

Lummi carvers warning the nation about endangered orcas; (horrific) local angles in the feds’ climate report; hunger-striking ICE inmate dies; weather getting serious.