The snow took its toll on a local-music legend; WA’s not suing over the ‘national emergency’ (yet); can scientists predict a ‘Big One’ earthquake?

Deep freeze hangs on; Showbox-savers keep on; foster kids sent out-of-state face horrific abuses; Boeing’s involved in an “SST” jet program again.

A perfect, beautiful (and dangerous) Snow Day; the Bertha tunnel opens and almost nobody notices; a prison food strike in eastern Wash.; Inslee keeps raising campaign cash.

Snowpocalypse 2019 coincides with the Bertha Tunnel’s debut; Portland could get bigtime baseball after all; can the Lava Lounge block (and the Montlake Market) be saved?

Howard Schultz’s local campaign kickoff and its discontents; don’t look but the non-Viadoom’s over; facing ‘casual’ racism at Roosevelt HS; can drinking red wine help you lose weight?

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?

Speakers and marchers call to continue MLK’s fight; orcas aren’t ‘in the pink’; Seattle’s long-threatened ‘Carmageddon’ still isn’t here; Boeing’s new quality-control plan means fewer human inspectors.

A sea cruise with a pompous talk-radio host; more on MS’s big affordable-housing plan; 1st Avenue streetcar lives!; Sounders team up with a local e-commerce firm (no, not THAT one).

An artist’s delicate little tableaux of eco-disaster; the Legislature gets underway; Viadoom starts without major incidents; could the federal shutdown make wildfire damage worse?

The Viaduct’s end becomes a big cruisin’ scene; KIRO-FM ‘talk bros’ axed; the Legislature starts minus one embattled member; why the Bezos’ split was announced when it was; the Seattle music scene’s founding mother dies.

The city and WSDOT apparently expected a calm, orderly shutdown to the Alaskan Way Viaduct at 10 p.m. Friday night.

What happened instead was a big, popular, slow-speed cruisin’ scene. Thousands came to pay their last respects to the doomed scenic waterfront roadway. There were cars, trucks, at least one semi, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians.

It was after 10:25 when crews finally put up the barricades at the Viaduct’s northern on-ramps. The northbound cruise continued for more than another hour.

The official last civilian vehicle on the Viaduct was a stalled car, that had to be pushed by a cop car.

The day we’ve all awaited is here at last!; a cogent, nonverbal comment gets snuck onto a KCPQ newscast; neo-affirmative action initiative filed; yet more city council candidates.

Various folks’ post-Viaduct plans; the federal shutdown’s effects get more dire; another GOP legislator’s anti-Seattle scheme; misleading ‘spreadsheet’ smears SeaTac immigrant business owners.

Indigenous artist offers a different take on superheroes; Eyman still wants to kill transit; Rep. Adam Smith hates the border-wall scheme; another windstorm wreaks havoc.

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.