The lovely/deadly snow remains and grows; why the Enquirer went after Bezos (maybe); Starbucks’ cofounder speaks out about Schultz; Beth’s Cafe is threatened by the usual local threat.

UW scientists hope to decipher mouse language; Blue C Sushi dies; Bush Garden might live; state’s ski resorts get more corporate.

Xmas thoughts as parts of Christendom implode on their own hypocrisy; more scary things to do with CGI; teacher disses online racist, gets threatened by the online racist’s fans.

Some CHPB neighbors want city to help pay for outside-the-gates security; waterfront neighbors don’t want to pay for big redo; Inslee’s big clean-energy plan; green-card crackdown plans denounced.

‘100 Years of Seattle Activism’; still more HQ2 ranting; Mariners stadium’s new name (just maybe); the tariff war’s local victims.

One of Seattle’s (and the world’s) most prominent people passes. Also: KeyArena razing starts; more deliberate far-right violence; dams vs. orcas.

A new book maps out Seattle’s past and present; who’s a ‘local’ writer really?; lower-end rents keep soaring; a ‘Christian’ confidence scheme is busted.

Ballard’s beautiful, doomed railway bridge; more Amazon pay-raise fallout; county to change deadly-force inquests; are flying cars on the way at last?

Remembering Sicks’ Stadium and Washington Mutual Bank; more Durkan-budget details; ‘disaster status’ for western salmon fisheries; opioid traces may have been found in shellfish.

Matt Manweller sort-of quits Legislature; Mayor Durkan plans an austerity budget during boom times; Bellingham Fire Dept. trains on a dead body; ex-UW cartoonist makes good.

City Council committee OKs big UW growth plan (with conditions); win for Hanford workers; setback for ICE-jail hunger strikers; A LOT more Amazon Go stores on the way.

Defaced public artwork replaced (multiple times); how to talk about our lousy air; Central Wash. U fires Matt Manweller; Felix Hernandez’s almost-comeback.

How Sub Pop triumphed; some places we wish weren’t demolished; Matt Manweller rants against #MeToo and ‘liberals’; David Meinert’s business world shrinks some more.

A new app shows your place’s indigenous past; a few Republicans finally break with White House; asylum seekers talk suicide; Bezos’ mega-wealth just keeps a-growin’.

Head-tax haters keep hating; Robinson Cano caught ‘using’; Cosmic Crisp apple PR blitz just beginning; what progressives can say they’re for.