More wistful looks at the Viaduct; did City of SeaTac price-gouge protesters for security?; more critically-ill orcas; waiting for the new Congress.

The Public Safety Building block will remain a hole in the ground for now; various year-end thoughts about the city, state, and nation; should/could public transit be free?

Windstorm 2: The Sequel smashes big trees and power lines all over; there’s no ambulance strike (yet); another Legislator’s workplace behavior is looked into; things start to get brighter (we hope).

Remembering all the orcas caught for display in private aquaria; Inslee’s new budget (and tax) plan; Amazon wants to put a spy-cam on your doorbell; Dave Reichert’s a GOP suck-up to the end.

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

Keeping King Donut-Teriyaki-Laundromat ‘a real place’; a legal victory for MHA upzones; a Bitcoin ‘mining’ data co. files for Chapter 11; remembering JFK after 55 years.

Turning street lanes into park space (permanently); light rail gets big fed grant; Durkan’s budget passes; another Mariners star goes to the Yanks.

Amazon admits what we’ve known about dual HQ2s; is Seattle’s loss also NY & VA’s loss?; big Starbucks layoffs; City Council approves Seattle Police labor contract.

Google workers protest what they call a toxic corporate culture; DSHS is ruled liable for foster kids’ safety; Chris Cornell’s widow sues his doctor.

UPS returns to bike couriers (sort of); really dangerous volcanoes are right here; ex-Gov. Locke disputes Rossi’s ’03 budget claims; autumn truly arrives at long last.

Wing Luke Museum’s Asian American sci-fi art; a couple more Paul Allen bits; local trans activist fears returning to the US; more foster-care horror tales.

A great ‘pop surrealist’ gallery is reborn; Amazon backtracks on warehouse pay; abused/abandoned kids often have opioid-using adults; Hanford’s tanks will still be toxic when they’re empty.

The grandest Battery Street Tunnel idea yet; what Kim Schrier really said about WWII; a legal victory for the mentally ill; Third Avenue now bus-only; the Storm’s terrific season.

The ‘quietest place in America’ gets pretty noisy these days; a need for ‘ethnic-specific’ blood donors; 3D-printer gun plans kept offline for now.

‘Seattle Teriyaki’ comes to Philly; local food-wholesale empire sold off; new bike-share rules OK’d; Bitcoin mining via a video-game app.