Temporary ‘Black Lives Matter’ art/slogans adorn a UW statue’s base; a virtual community meeting about SPD gets testy; the same city councilmembers issue differing statements about police chief Best’s departure; a very hot weekend’s coming.

Ellen Forney’s hand-washing tutorial; Inslee’s ‘stay at home’ order and its exceptions; you can now apply to be tested (space permitting); the main West Seattle Bridge is fully closed while the ‘low bridge’ is restricted.

Meet the Liberty Bank Building’s mural artist; judge rules against most of anti-I-976 suit; Sawant’s ‘Tax Amazon’ plan now has specifics; imagining what won’t be in Sea-Tac’s new ‘Capitol Hill Food Court’.

Photos of the Viaduct’s last days; we’ve got the first US case of Wuhan coronavirus; did the Saudi crown prince hack Jeff Bezos’ cell phone?; a gas thief starts a big leak from a city-owned gas tank into Longfellow Creek.

Microsoft joins the deliberately “ugly” holiday sweater craze; how the Pike Place newsstand could be saved; two local rock promoters pass on; (some) non-passengers will get to enter Sea-Tac’s concourses.

Dept. store Santa photos’ local origin; gifted-education task force’s suggestions; Safeway & Stratolaunch now connected; another year-end honor for Megan Rapinoe & co.

Tim Eyman announces a run for governor (and gloats in front of Sound Transit’s board); the Viaduct’s last piece is toppled; ’96 Spokane bomber won’t be executed—yet; how important was Gordon Sondland’s testimony?

Women’s sports and the continuing fight for equity and respect; police chief Best’s (possibly taking-sides) Tweet; Muilenberg goes to Congress; wanna buy a geoduck (not enough do)?

A BC Sikh leftist may be Canada’s next ‘kingmaker’; area rivers are flooding early and big; a big Boeing exec shuffle; Ferguson fights to keep federal clean-water rules.

Highbrow pundits on Amazon’s present and future; Time magazine notices the Seattle City Council battle; the Stranger campaign ‘endorsement’ that wasn’t; a Boeing-Porsche flying car project.

Trashing an RV as a hate-filled ‘statement’; big support for burned-out Ballard businesses; Durkan’s ‘traffic czar’ may be leaving; could the 737 MAX be back by January?

A local artist links racial & climate crises; a WA sheriff has to give up his guns due to a protection order; Eyman insults an un-amused Seattle City Council; are online games (and online everything) meant to be addictive? (Well, duh…)

Seattle’s oldest department store will close next year; Beth’s Cafe (but not its building) is for sale; Mariners’ season ends; a UW prof tells why tech execs are all positive all the time.

Techies, teens, and others rally for climate action; anti-Amazon outfit’s non-‘grassroots’; union votes ‘no confidence’ in Seattle school-lunch boss; Bartell Drugs will close one greater-downtown store but open another.

Lime Pod car shares are going away; an SPD officer sues over PCB exposure at a homeless-camp cleanup; FAA chief tests the 737 MAX software fix; Bezos’ pledge to buy lots of electric vans won’t keep many of his workers away from today’s Climate Strike.