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.

Some CHPB neighbors want city to help pay for outside-the-gates security; waterfront neighbors don’t want to pay for big redo; Inslee’s big clean-energy plan; green-card crackdown plans denounced.

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?

It’s Hockey Night in Seattle (in 3 years); more pro-upzoning arguments; Legislature won’t investigate Joe Fain.

UW dental faculty denounce budget cuts; we’ll know today about NHL in Seattle; judge’s police-reform questions; state tenant-rights bill coming.

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.

Brighten your winter day with cargo-container art; a (too simple?) solution to Hanford waste; City Council candidate doesn’t officially live in town.

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

Making a statement about a disappearing community; home prices still fall; state’s foster-care crisis gets worse; another City Council vacancy looms.

Lummi carvers warning the nation about endangered orcas; (horrific) local angles in the feds’ climate report; hunger-striking ICE inmate dies; weather getting serious.

Turning street lanes into park space (permanently); light rail gets big fed grant; Durkan’s budget passes; another Mariners star goes to the Yanks.

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

‘100 Years of Seattle Activism’; still more HQ2 ranting; Mariners stadium’s new name (just maybe); the tariff war’s local victims.

Amazon’s new campuses and their discontents; can a big new methanol plant lead to less carbon emission?; what we don’t know about killed and missing indigenous women.