The Stranger’s moving into the old Crescent Spice building; local CEOs endorse payroll-tax bill; Cinerama theater shuttered again; aren’t you glad WA doesn’t have Presidential caucuses any more?

An art exhibit celebrating ‘nerd-dom’ in Pt. Angeles; Fred Wildlife Refuge closing; Amazon’s HQ2 scheme was a big ploy for tax breaks; a big HIV vaccine trial’s disappointing end.

A for-profit “selfie museum” lets you show yourself in various artsy settings; a Super Bowl ad salutes Police Chief Best; lotsa floods & mudslides in the region; Ballard P-Patch ‘saved’ for $1.95 million.

The Pacific Science Center’s laser shows are run by real live artists (imagine!); the state ramps up its coronavirus response; a leaked memo sheds info on Blaine border detainments; Amazon’s now worth $1 trillion (in stock value) and has almost 800,000 global workers.

Car crash topples a front-yard sculpture made of rotting wood; Swedish strike to be immediately followed by lockout; some local companies won’t let employees visit China; remembering a beloved musician who apparently did himself in.

Swedish picket lines draw support from near and far; Matt Shea wants back in the state House GOP Caucus; Phoenix Jones arrested on drug charges; game-themed ‘Atari Hotel’ coming to Seattle.

Swedish nurses’ strike begins; more toxic chemicals found in local waters; what hasn’t already worked on Third Avenue (more police); one more reason to dislike Amazon techies (giant umbrellas).

A local benefit concert that benefits its own local musicians (who need it); more downtown-shooting reactions; Alex Pedersen scoffs at the City Council’s anti-injustice resolutions; the feds decide to close the Northwest’s only National Archives facility.

Reactions to Wednesday night’s shooting; A McKinsey report parses the local homelessness crisis; UW president tells the Davos conference about coming out; security hired for Swedish nurses’-strike replacements.

Anti-Marxist spray paint at St. Mark’s; another stupid shooting, this time in the heart of downtown at the evening commute; coronavirus-fueled face-mask buying frenzy; Tacoma doesn’t like Sea-Tac promoted as SEA.

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.

KUOW tries to make public radio a little less lily-white; how King County got re-namesaked in 1986; Cornish College’s first black president sees himself as a ‘preacher for the arts’; Felix Hernandez tries a comeback (with Atlanta).

University Book Store turns 120; Gov. Inslee’s carbon-cap law partly survives state Supreme Court; Microsoft vows to become ‘carbon negative’; Julia Sweeney defends her ‘Pat’ character as more ‘annoying’ than androgynous.

Places near here that got big snow still have problems from it; a bill in Olympia would complicate changes to local schools’ gifted programs; big grants to three local radical artists; the threat of a ‘tech Cold War.’

Some parts of the region will get a bunch of snow, maybe; Boeing had more orders canceled than delivered in ’19; Sawant’s latest ‘Tax Amazon’ plan still isn’t fully revealed; Ken Jennings disses Courtney Love.