A 30-vehicle crash and more power outages result from the winter blast; Sawant blasts Amazon again; Durkan defends police again; anti-trans meeting’s still on at the downtown library.

Some places get a little snow, others a lot; Seahawks’ last comeback try falls short; Boeing accused of deliberately hiding MAX system revisions just to save on pilot training; (most) crime in Seattle’s way down.

Will we get snow? (maybe), icy coldness? (oh yeah); more damaging Boeing internal documents unearthed; Jay Inslee’s witty snap-back to Tim Eyman; UW medical residents take a ‘wellness day off.’

The struggle to get even one Latinx lawmaker elected in Yakima; waiting for the threat/promise of snow; Bernie Sanders gets some local endorsements; why’s the news been so darn heavy these days?

A 737 crashes between the two key countries in current US national scandals; how Seattle NIMBYs exploit a state environmental law; PCC takes over the grocery spot in the big 23rd & Union project. Seattle’s decade in (non-)fashionability.

More fallout over citizens of Iranian descent detained by the feds at Blaine; Boeing ‘training pilots’ may go nonunion; another potential MAX hardware flaw’s found; the state’s presidential primary will ‘count’ this year.

Protesting the next war at its potential start while Americans of Iranian descent get detained at Blaine; my days with the (now-splintering) Methodists; what NY State promised Amazon for half of HQ2; the Seahawks move forward.

MOHAI’s got a miniature Mont-Saint-Michel plus an AI virtual tour; Amazon threatens to fire workers who question its climate response; Swedish nurses are closer to a strike; Bill Gates sez folks like him should pay more taxes.

The year starts sans fireworks; an Olympia legal victory for Seattle’s MHA plan; Amazon delivery contractors’ high-pressure existence; how to make lower Third Avenue safer for all.

What will emerge and ebb during the twelve months in which many things must change.

The local decade in review, for better and for worse; Microsoft blames a data breach on N. Koreans; more robots just make life worse for Amazon warehouse workers; high winds could cancel our NYE fireworks.

More downtown chain stores are shuttering; are some anti-trans ‘feminists’ really right-wingers?; a prosecutor’s ‘egregious misconduct’ in Snohomish County; the Seahawks come within one play of victory again.

Separate art exhibits honor historic African American men and women; ‘Real Change’ marks 25 years (its principle issue far from solved); Seahawks face the match of the year; what the next decade needs from us.

WSDOT finally gets its wish to raze the Montlake Blvd. Market; Lime Bikes to go away (at least for now); more damaging 737 MAX documents show up; why 12/26 should be as revered as 12/25.

Dennis Muilenburg isn’t Boeing’s CEO anymore; Marshawn Lynch is a Seahawk again; ghosts of Christian punk rockers past; reclaiming Christmas (and Jesus) from authoritarian forces.