Seattle U gets a $300 million art collection (plus funds to build a museum building); judge nixes state regulation of for-profit ICE jail; state Rep. Frank Chopp retiring after 30 years; Seattle Children’s settles sexual-harassment charges.

John Oliver disses Boeing’s corporate priorities; county deputies asked to not enforce Burien camping ban; skyrocketing costs for salmon-friendly water passages; four years since the first COVID shutdowns.

A high-art video ode to Seattle; big WA labor union endorses ‘Uncommitted’ in Prez primary; trans worker sues Boeing over harassment; that famous CA-based burger chain’s coming to WA (but not near here).

Fictional Seattles in film, TV, and games; Harrell’s ‘State of the City’ speech short on specifics; labor union supports big grocery merger; Amazon goes on the Dow Jones Industrials.

Ex-Seattle writer/producer self-outs as trans at age 63; Japanese Americans protest at ICE jail; county sues child-care contractor for nonpayment; Redmond rainbow crosswalk defaced in hate crime.

Comedian Pearl Lam takes on ‘reality’ TV in a one-woman show; more deadly winter-weather effects; Amazon buys a stake in several regional TV sports channels; ‘what happened to Seattle’s relationship with Boeing?’

K-Pop merch chain comes to town; Boeing names more production safeguards amid a second lawsuit; cold snap’s widespread damage to pipes and playfields; 50 African refugees refuse to return to Tukwila church tent encampment.

Pete Carroll ‘kicked upstairs’ from Seahawk coaching job; bill in Olympia would limit rate hikes; workers at Boeing supplier warned bosses about 737 MAX 9 problems; hundreds more Amazon layoffs at Twitch, Prime Video.

What happened to an SPD officer found spying on his ex; Inslee says WA’s ‘the strongest state;’ still more fallout from 737 MAX 9 debacle; snow just might show up around here today, or tomorrow, just maybe.

Dudes ‘land’ a dangerous 1/1 stunt; Burien sued over anti-homeless laws; antivax crusader running for state attorney general; remembering the ‘Queen of Soaps.’

The Ins & Outs for the coming year of imperative action (and, we hope, some fun along the way).

HBO doc on the theft of a historic bonsai tree in Federal Way; Sound Transit CEO quits after 16 months; Tacoma officers’ lawyer claims Manny Ellis caused his own death; Zulily claims it was murdered by Amazon.

Local Jews hold Hanukkah rally for a Gaza ceasefire; some of the new year’s new laws; Boeing may get its first female CEO (just not yet); SCOTUS upholds WA ban on anti-LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy.’

UW prof on how every version of a song becomes its own work; rain/flood effects continue; SPOG head bashes police accountability agency; King County Council warns of ‘dire’ budget cuts ahead.

Big bird (not ‘Big Bird’) statue graces W. Seattle; another election office gets a ‘suspicious’ envelope; Northwest’s only Spanish-language TV newscast canceled; Providence Everett nurses to strike today.