Amazon coders are working on a project that could make some coding jobs obsolete; UFOs still light up Wash. skies; Inslee wants ‘clean electricity’ to power the state; Carol Channing RIP.

An artist’s delicate little tableaux of eco-disaster; the Legislature gets underway; Viadoom starts without major incidents; could the federal shutdown make wildfire damage worse?

The Viaduct’s end becomes a big cruisin’ scene; KIRO-FM ‘talk bros’ axed; the Legislature starts minus one embattled member; why the Bezos’ split was announced when it was; the Seattle music scene’s founding mother dies.

The city and WSDOT apparently expected a calm, orderly shutdown to the Alaskan Way Viaduct at 10 p.m. Friday night.

What happened instead was a big, popular, slow-speed cruisin’ scene. Thousands came to pay their last respects to the doomed scenic waterfront roadway. There were cars, trucks, at least one semi, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians.

It was after 10:25 when crews finally put up the barricades at the Viaduct’s northern on-ramps. The northbound cruise continued for more than another hour.

The official last civilian vehicle on the Viaduct was a stalled car, that had to be pushed by a cop car.

The day we’ve all awaited is here at last!; a cogent, nonverbal comment gets snuck onto a KCPQ newscast; neo-affirmative action initiative filed; yet more city council candidates.

Various folks’ post-Viaduct plans; the federal shutdown’s effects get more dire; another GOP legislator’s anti-Seattle scheme; misleading ‘spreadsheet’ smears SeaTac immigrant business owners.

Neighbours dance club’s building sold; Bruce Harrell to leave the City Council; Inslee wants public-option health care; Mounties trash BC pipeline blockades.

UW scientists hope to decipher mouse language; Blue C Sushi dies; Bush Garden might live; state’s ski resorts get more corporate.

Indigenous artist offers a different take on superheroes; Eyman still wants to kill transit; Rep. Adam Smith hates the border-wall scheme; another windstorm wreaks havoc.

One of the last three Seattle video stores gives up the good fight; footage is posted of the 12/31 police shooting; big vacancies at Seattle apartments; Viadoom phase one begins.

More wistful looks at the Viaduct; did City of SeaTac price-gouge protesters for security?; more critically-ill orcas; waiting for the new Congress.

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

For the 33rd year, what will become “Yay” and “Meh” over the next twelve months.

The Public Safety Building block will remain a hole in the ground for now; various year-end thoughts about the city, state, and nation; should/could public transit be free?

Red pandas temporarily escape their zoo enclosure; state Supreme Court OKs youth-jail funding; black hotel guest proves he’s a paid guest, gets kicked out anyway.