Various folks’ post-Viaduct plans; the federal shutdown’s effects get more dire; another GOP legislator’s anti-Seattle scheme; misleading ‘spreadsheet’ smears SeaTac immigrant business owners.

Neighbours dance club’s building sold; Bruce Harrell to leave the City Council; Inslee wants public-option health care; Mounties trash BC pipeline blockades.

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

One of the last three Seattle video stores gives up the good fight; footage is posted of the 12/31 police shooting; big vacancies at Seattle apartments; Viadoom phase one begins.

For the 33rd year, what will become “Yay” and “Meh” over the next twelve months.

A classic Chinese restaurant closes; remembering journalist Rick Anderson and soccer coach Sigi Schmid; 12-step groups for tech addicts.

Faiths come together to help out on the holiday; good news for (some) local fish stocks; hotel-worker protections shut down; what Boxing Day means to me.

Downtown protesters target Chase’s Trans-Mountain Pipeline role; Bumbershoot was lonely this year; will Bremerton get a Quincy Jones town square?; how to properly describe Amazon.

Classic Ballard diner suddenly shutters; useful things made from Boeing fiber leftovers; cop retaliates against man who’d cussed at him; Amazon loves pomposity.

It’s Hockey Night in Seattle (in 3 years); more pro-upzoning arguments; Legislature won’t investigate Joe Fain.

UW dental faculty denounce budget cuts; we’ll know today about NHL in Seattle; judge’s police-reform questions; state tenant-rights bill coming.

Probable end to a Georgetown landmark; definite end to a big live-music club; what Microsoft’s up to (the stock, that is); yet more horror under White House orders.

Lummi carvers warning the nation about endangered orcas; (horrific) local angles in the feds’ climate report; hunger-striking ICE inmate dies; weather getting serious.

Keeping King Donut-Teriyaki-Laundromat ‘a real place’; a legal victory for MHA upzones; a Bitcoin ‘mining’ data co. files for Chapter 11; remembering JFK after 55 years.

Amazon’s new campuses and their discontents; can a big new methanol plant lead to less carbon emission?; what we don’t know about killed and missing indigenous women.