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.

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).

UW students devise another big plan for the National Guard Interbay site; Swedish nurses set a strike date; is Sprint doomed without the T-Mobile merger?; the side of MLK we need now.

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.’

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.

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.

SAM hires BC First Nations artist to make a big manga-esque mural; Pantone’s local color guru; Intl. Dist. panel elections imitate City Council run; hiring a trans dancer gets King County homelessness exec suspended.

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

City Council approves big aquarium expansion; 737 MAX ‘whistleblower’ to testify; Megan Rapinoe gets another big honor; a plea to cartoonist David Horsey.

What the waters off the Northwest coast sound like; private surveillance cams in a low-crime (but high-fear) neighborhood; Amazon’s fast-delivery mania leads to slower deliveries; Bill Nye’s suing Disney.

US Rep. Denny Heck will retire; Pocket Theater space will close; two local restaurant empires will shrink; first Native American justice will join state Supreme Court.