A big, privately-financed outdoor art installation; more earthquake fears; what the dead ICE jail inmate wrote to his lawyer; George Bush the First without tears.

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

Archie McPhee’s latest novelty junk food; heroism and spoiled privilege on display in DC; a plan for tiny art spaces; a petition would rescind the county’s Safeco Field subsidies.

A ‘non-binary,’ oft-cross-dressing YouTube star; viaduct’s death date announced; Safeco Field subsidy OK’d; my new book’s already a hit.

Tesla Motors settles with the artist it ripped off; memories of pioneer Seattle (including the bad parts); another local TV station maybe for sale; are we at a ‘tipping point’ in the local real-estate boom?

Another grand U District church building’s about to go away; a beloved local worker’s taken by ICE agents; is Seattle real estate crash-bound, or is that just wishful thinking?

A Harlan Ellison memory; Jayapal arrested at DC protest; the SPD ‘mass exodus’ that isn’t; Tacoma beats Seattle (at something not good).

Luxury apartment glut; immigrant mothers sue the feds; parking-space stickers going away; a parody/nadir in the bottled water craze.

The lost art of the courtroom sketch; Bob Ferguson’s latest crusade against the feds; out-of-state online sales tax likely won’t hurt Amazon.

A big tribute to a local art master; Sinclair Broadcasting’s historic precedent; new Seattle Schools head; ‘congestion pricing’ for downtown driving?

A local comedy legend passes; the county exec’s recorded speech; UW psych unit threatened; a possible motive for Michael Bennett’s accuser.

A judge rules for fish over power; sexism charged at SDOT; KOMO staff don’t like Sinclair’s agit-prop demands; city approves parking-less apartments.

For your Thursday perusal: Nintendo’s tangible video-game add-ons; Microsoft pleads for AI ethics; what it takes to get a Twitter account ‘un-hacked’; a local TV legend retires.

To start your week after a big-news weekend, read about MLK’s real message & its relevance; Cliff Avril defending Haiti’s honor; how Hawaii’s safe (for now); and a local/national sports legend RIP.

Our pre-holiday message includes stuff about Bob Ferguson vs. Comcast; derailment survivors vs. Amtrak et al.; a trans man vs. Providence Swedish; and the death of our premier radio-drama revivalist.