The Ins and the Outs for the year when we (somehow, we hope) begin to get rid of the goons running and ruining everything in DC.

New Octavia Butler biography; US 2 eastbound opening again (with limits); four die in alleged Eastside murder/suicide; ‘Somali child care providers in WA being harassed.’

Beloved Ballard dive bar closing; Stevens Pass ski area opens (but you gotta go the long way around); ICE may set even lower standards for Tacoma jail operator; we’ve had ‘our warmest December ever.’

Saving a Capitol Hill gaming Mecca; judge makes ICE release disabled US vet; Children’s Hospital nurses authorize potential strike; Ross closing two Seattle stores.

MOHAI explores intersections of women, queer-lib, and motorcycles; Seattle’s soul-food queen dies; Wild Waves gets one more year; over 100,000 may evacuate region’s ‘catastrophic’ floods.

‘Seattle’s last roadhouse’ closing; waiting for the ‘atmospheric river’ to resume after major floods; City Council OKs SPOG contract; Ste. Michelle wines sold to in-state buyers.

Original Pike Pub location closing; Amazon exec says company’s home base will stay here; no, Mt. Rainier isn’t on the verge of erupting; no, Katie Wilson isn’t vocally ‘anti-Israel.’

The man who found or created much of Bartell’s beloved merch; BECU to merge with Calif. credit union; King County Council OKs budget, while Zahilay fires much of Constantine’s old staff.

Harrell’s farewell, Wilson’s victory speech; damning evidence about SPD’s Cal Anderson response in May; juvenile-detention doctor accused of multiple sexual abuses; Starbucks strike is on.

Knute Berger profiles Henry and Sarah Yesler; will full SNAP funding come back or not?; mayoral race narrows in late ballots; the (unintended?) double meaning of the new women’s hockey team’s name.

Potential next-gen aircraft shown off; local help for SNAP cutoff victims; Crocodile says it’s not closing its smaller performance rooms (yet); Microsoft Azure cloud outage screws with Alaska Airlines’ systems (again).

Crocodile closing two of its three performance spaces; WA, 25 other states sue over SNAP funding halt; Amazon announces 14,000 layoffs, while the state has a ‘growing backlog’ of pending unemployment claims.

Performance as resistance; mass protest time is here again; China-backed hackers blamed for F5 cyberattack; oh yeah, more bad Mariners news.

Retrospective doc about 1999 WTO protests reaps award nomination; county assessor Wilson won’t run again; mixed fiscal news in first ‘WA Music Census;’ Amazon suspends employee who dissed company’s ties to Israel.

SIFF won’t reopen Egyptian Theatre; controversial cop won’t run East Precinct after all; ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural vandalized; WSU report says shootings are now the #1 cause of high-school students’ deaths.