A local painter depicts people with things to say but without the means to say it; SPD attrition is up a bit this year; Boeing could leave its offices at the ex-Longacres site; what’s really ‘revolutionary’?

State high court nixes Eyman’s latest kill-transit initiative; local man gets COVID twice; Portland pastor/NAACP head accused of repeated sexual/physical abuse; ‘Uncle Ike’ doesn’t like his face on urinal cakes.

More on the ‘Keep Music Live’ fund drive; Durkan’s hand-picked ‘Equitable Communities Initiative Task Force’ and its discontents; conflicting tales about the Portland protest shooting suspect’s killing in Lacey; the state’s COVID response boss gives her notice.

Major fund campaign aims to keep live music spaces alive; Kshama Sawant fund campaign aims to fight recall drive; COVID cases still rising in King County and at UW; another month with no new Boeing plane orders.

An ‘Indigiqueer’ drag performer wants real Native inclusion in the arts (not just slogans); more evidence of tech-biz sexism; Gates says COVID vaccine could be close; another failed try to track a ‘murder hornet’.

Right-wing talker Dori Monson loses Seahawks game-day gig; Seahawks respond with the comeback win of the year; Microsoft workers can largely stay home-based into next year; deputies may have shot Tommy Le when he was already face-down.

More on the Elephant Car Wash’s demise and the fate of its classic neon; state’s top court nixes Durkan recall drive; remembering a local gay-rights pioneer; a poll shows big support for Black Lives Matter protests.

Bartell Drugs to be sold off; Elephant Car Wash on Denny to be razed; public school enrollment (especially kindergarten) is down statewide; city Human Rights Commission wants Mayor Durkan to resign or be removed.

Promoting Black liberation at a ‘healing farm;’ cinemas can reopen (but many won’t); Congressional report says Amazon has ‘monopoly power’ over many sellers and suppliers; Storm makes getting a fourth WNBA crown look easy.

Museum of Museums finally nears opening; Inslee disses White House COVID ‘downplaying;’ Seattle may have the fewest COVID infections of any big US city; a venerable local charity’s slick/bland ‘rebranding.’

Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme make a streaming holiday special; will we ever get to a ‘phase 3’ reopening?; 16 arrests at another Capitol Hill protest; gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp’s book compares gun laws to the Holocaust.

787 assembly to leave Everett some time in 2021; Greek Row COVID outbreak passes 100 cases; Seattle police union negotiations about to start; a ‘socially distanced theater production.’

A local dancer’s tale of depression, drink, and survival; COVID outbreak at Salish Lodge; Durkan to disband Navigation Team after all; Inslee threatens Boeing’s tax breaks if it moves 787 work out of Everett.

Robotized Amazon warehouses have more human injuries; Durkan’s budget keeps libraries closed but offers only minor SPD cuts; Boeing said to be pulling 787 work out of Everett; why WA can’t have more college slots; local housing prices still rising.

A local artist’s constructions depict life in our chaotic times; seeking the truth among online seas of lies; a new local documentary explores social costs of imprisonment; almost half of King County adults work from home now.