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.

Classic Ballard diner suddenly shutters; useful things made from Boeing fiber leftovers; cop retaliates against man who’d cussed at him; Amazon loves pomposity.

A rich tech guy’s fancy food photos; transit’s more popular than ever here; anti-injection-site initiative halted; what’s REALLY behind Seattle’s big changes?

A big, privately-financed outdoor art installation; more earthquake fears; what the dead ICE jail inmate wrote to his lawyer; George Bush the First without tears.

A Christmas tree ornament for our time; tribes vs. oil pipeline redux; new City Council candidates; what’s in a (potato chip) name?

Christopher Rufo’s (comparatively light) troll trash talk; should a library sell off NW native artifacts?; a City Council legend dies at 96.

Protesting the Big A’s ties to ICE; the homeless crisis sparks violent incidents; a Yakama tribal leader’s not allowed at the US Supreme Court; will HQ2 end the local housing mega-boom?

South Park’s new pavement art; why our local taxes are so un-progressive; Sawant wants to revive the ‘head tax;’ a major NW art-scene figure dies.

Loving the Viaduct in its last months; state Supreme Court says kids shouldn’t get life in prison without parole; can a smartphone app help keep people off drugs?

Wing Luke Museum’s Asian American sci-fi art; a couple more Paul Allen bits; local trans activist fears returning to the US; more foster-care horror tales.

More Paul Allen punditry; #MeToo lands at Seattle’s premier black church; Inslee scoffs at oil ports on military lands; fewer opioid deaths in SnoCo.

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

Sonics nostalgia on display; more national political nightmares; towns where Amazon’s good for physical retailers.

Mr. ‘Claymation’ dies; who cares about the NBA anymore?; Viaduct razing will be fast and loud; recalling the ‘Infamous Kitsap Ferry Riot’.

Totem poles aren’t really of local origin (so should we remove them?); more claims against State Rep. Martin Manweller; a Seattle radio legend dies.