On Presidents’ Day in a Presidential year we talk about expressing your love with potatoes (really); cutting down old trees before neighbors can make a protest; Seattle’s biggest remaining manufacturing company may split for the ‘burbs; funding tech startups via bankrupt Australian mining firms; and just a little about the Supreme Court.

A new month finds us still dealing with old problems: vast homelessness in Seattle and Tacoma; the still-not-over siege in eastern Oregon; the floundering of Seattle’s bike-share program; GOPers vs. reality.

Another pre-Seahawks playoff weekend begins with the sad fate of (some of) the Waterfront Streetcars; a poignant account of surviving poverty thru music; a fetishistically disgusting legislative proposal; fear of immigration raids; and the usual gazillion weekend activity options.

The Kid’s in the Hall. In other news today: Who’s really the rightful owner of that Oregon wildlife-refuge land?; Inslee’s campaign to reduce the “public health” crisis of gun violence; a respected sex-worker website’s shut down; don’t worry about all those li’l underground tremors.

Your Tuesday e-mail missive discusses a beautiful, doomed Ballard warehouse; the law to let ride-share drivers organize; a professor who warned about Chipotle eight years ago; and why Krampus and why now?

As KEXP moves into its super-deluxe new digs, our midweek report remembers its far-less-slick precursor KCMU. Also: dampness everywhere; Amazon’s plans for the Dog House/Hurricane Cafe block; Troy Kelley refuses to quit.

Our biggest-yet MISCmedia MAIL (our six-month anniversary, in fact) has hordes of weekend activity listings, plus potential hockey hopes; potential freeway-lid hopes; ginormous “cocktail napkins” at a tech-biz gala; and the end of a Belltown institution.

MISCmedia MAIL, still fiercely independent, watches yet more local media consolidation. Also: just how “hate talk” inspires shooters; Redhook returns to Seattle (sort of); and Seattle’s (and the U.S. Northwest’s) real birthday.

Our midweek missive has a Rosa Parks remembrance; a place to get a 3-D printed statue of yourself; more on the restaurant that turned low-income seniors away; and a new image for Burien.

Monday’s MISCmedia MAIL includes the bizarre cognitive dissonance between shoppers and protesters on Black Friday, which in turn was overshadowed by out-of-state news of yet another psycho bigot shooter. Also: What Bill Gates may announce at the big climate conference; outsourcing Santa; two big football wins.