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.

An Amazon billboard hints at what Bezos really wants; did Fred Meyer really give away a baby in 1949? (hint: no); UW football coach suddenly quits; a new Boeing venture’s name has an old ‘ring’ to it.

Cosmic Crisp apple shows up in stores; ’60 Minutes’ airs its Seattle-homelessness story; Northgate’s lonely last holiday; more WTO protest memories.

Amazon critics stage a pre-Black Friday PR blitz; a judge hears the case for an I-976 injunction; the Paul Allen estate’s fate is still unsettled; no more Pagliacci Pizza on Broadway or Albertsons in Magnolia.

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.

Delta Airlines phases in ‘facial recognition’ at Sea-Tac; one of the great ‘grunge’-era show photographers finally has a book out; how an Eyman for governor campaign would work out; Bumbershoot’s literary-arts queen RIP.

Supersonic jets (at least prototypes) could fly here again; a Showbox buyout offer (terms undisclosed); a possible Children’s Hospital mold infection case from 2005; parents of special-needs kids are advised to move out of the state.

Local military vets sing for Seattle Opera; why didn’t Shaun Scott get more progressive campaign $?; Rep. Denny Heck foresees GOP budging on impeachment; our city’s the ‘gloomiest’!

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.

City Councilmember Kshama Sawant rises again; Sounders make winning the MLS Cup look easy; Congress members have another ‘concern’ over the 737 MAX; the Centralia Massacre a century later.

City and county suing to stop I-976; Sawant’s seeing a late-vote comeback (again); protesters don’t like cruise ships (or docks for them); why this Sounders FC MLS Cup game might matter more.

Some politicos deal with the aftermath of Tim Eyman’s anti-transit initiative, others try to stop it; no major changes in City Council races (yet); music/performance spaces try to stay alive in an expensive city.

The Seattle City Council wasn’t “flipped” (not completely at least); the TV station you all thought was Fox-owned now is Fox-owned; Tom Douglas workers get a cash settlement (plus gift cards).

The cost of hatchery salmon (and hence of dams); Starbucks to host voter events; UW College Republicans lose their charter; long live Dia de los Muertos.