‘Slushmageddon’ arrives and makes a huge mess; viaduct demolition to finally start; school-bond ballots due today; Inslee’s ‘folksy’ national image-making.

The lovely/deadly snow remains and grows; why the Enquirer went after Bezos (maybe); Starbucks’ cofounder speaks out about Schultz; Beth’s Cafe is threatened by the usual local threat.

Awaiting a big-ass storm; ‘American Junkie’ comes to the stage; a verdict in the Ride the Ducks trial; Bezos sues National Enquirer for extortion; Woody Allen sues Amazon for breach of contract.

One more day of cold sunshine before snow returns; Howard Schultz’s questionable investments; MLB dismisses racism claims against the Mariners; Mayor Durkan reveals secret cancer surgery.

Deep freeze hangs on; Showbox-savers keep on; foster kids sent out-of-state face horrific abuses; Boeing’s involved in an “SST” jet program again.

A perfect, beautiful (and dangerous) Snow Day; the Bertha tunnel opens and almost nobody notices; a prison food strike in eastern Wash.; Inslee keeps raising campaign cash.

Snowpocalypse 2019 coincides with the Bertha Tunnel’s debut; Portland could get bigtime baseball after all; can the Lava Lounge block (and the Montlake Market) be saved?

‘Designer grunge’ guy rips off Nirvana; various folks’ 2019 predictions; another fatal police shooting; Huskies’ Rose Bowl comeback try falls short.

Windstorm 2: The Sequel smashes big trees and power lines all over; there’s no ambulance strike (yet); another Legislator’s workplace behavior is looked into; things start to get brighter (we hope).

The Mariners’ stadium gets a new name; Durkan names two new dept. heads; car-share companies merge; the mass-child-detention horror continues.

One of Seattle’s least-known museums revealed; a new SDOT director’s picked; new attempts to save the salmon; are our orcas too antisocial?

Remembering all the orcas caught for display in private aquaria; Inslee’s new budget (and tax) plan; Amazon wants to put a spy-cam on your doorbell; Dave Reichert’s a GOP suck-up to the end.

Inslee’s presidential hopes get clearer; Jeff Bezos goes to ‘South Park’; a local trial focuses on the rights of kids in immigration court; ‘the Hitler analogy’ gets a modern-day update.

One of Seattle’s (and the world’s) most prominent people passes. Also: KeyArena razing starts; more deliberate far-right violence; dams vs. orcas.

Wannabe Seattle NHL team owners show off their planned practice rink complex; ‘Lid I-5’ folks show show off their proposals to ‘reclaim’ downtown lands; Susan Hutchison shows she’s a dittohead.