A locally-made 2008 educational comic about the 1918 flu has lessons for today; Inslee wants the state’s factories to make COVID-response stuff; a revised ‘Tax Amazon’ bill’s introduced; T-Mobile finally absorbs Sprint.

Ghostly beauty from a stalled Seattle Opera production; state and county COVID numbers show at least a little progress; Whole Foods workers stage a ‘sick out;’ democracy vouchers survive one last challenge.

Short Run cartoonists depict their social-distanced lives; government relief package isn’t enough to save some small businesses; local used-records king RIP; it’s been a month already and it feels like a decade.

Seattleites “make a joyful noise”; the Kingdome implosion’s remembered as another joyful blast; unemployment applications go way-way up; Gov. Inslee and Bill Gates both say we may have to shut down longer (maybe a lot longer).

COVID takes a major figure in local science and political thought; unearthing the crisis’s confusing early days at Life Care Center; a year without SIFF (sniff); a dance fest, imagining a better future for humanity, may or may not have a future itself.

One barmaid’s temp-closing words of reassurance; a year without St. Patrick’s Day; Sawant repurposes her ‘Amazon tax’ proposal; Joe Biden wins WA’s Presidential primary.

A lot more coronavirus updates and reactions; a strange rare creature that’s even more endangered by virus-panic; two more Bellevue College leaders fired after art-statement alteration; Seattle magazine’s got a new local owner.

How Seattle’s bygone Queen of Neon was rediscovered; Re-bar at 30; Bumbershoot Lives! (in some form); another big ruling against Tim Eyman (whom Republicans still (heart symbol)).

The Stranger’s moving into the old Crescent Spice building; local CEOs endorse payroll-tax bill; Cinerama theater shuttered again; aren’t you glad WA doesn’t have Presidential caucuses any more?

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.

Microsoft joins the deliberately “ugly” holiday sweater craze; how the Pike Place newsstand could be saved; two local rock promoters pass on; (some) non-passengers will get to enter Sea-Tac’s concourses.

Recalling civic booster Jim Ellis’s career and crusades; Boeing earnings tumble; Kshama Sawant writes in Teen Vogue; the volunteers in a trailer who help the people just released from the ICE jail.

A Tacoma mag tries to spark new interest in both Tacoma and print media; Dow Constantine slams back against an ICE PR offensive; a big gas leak hits the U District; feeling broke on $100,000 a year.

Highbrow pundits on Amazon’s present and future; Time magazine notices the Seattle City Council battle; the Stranger campaign ‘endorsement’ that wasn’t; a Boeing-Porsche flying car project.

A city legal settlement means trouble for attempts to save the Showbox; City Market’s site’s marked for development; ‘Seattle’ mag publisher files for bankruptcy; Boeing wants in on the budding space-tourism biz.