Remembering a Monkee; the cost of getting toxic wood out of the sound; rent control progresses in OR; an update on our big-little fund drive.

Durkan sez now’s the time to build the city we want; Alaska Air’s inherited lawsuit; one fewer City Council candidate; Oregon could let 16-year-olds vote.

The snow took its toll on a local-music legend; WA’s not suing over the ‘national emergency’ (yet); can scientists predict a ‘Big One’ earthquake?

Viaduct demolition’s just as noisy as expected; more Amazon-snubs-NY fallout; U Way merchants don’t want upzones; Heidi Wills wants back on the City Council.

Amazon doesn’t (heart) NY after all; state AG Bob Ferguson vows to fight any border-wall emergency order; a tale of race riots in Eastern Washington’s past; an important correction.

A major correction: The site where a strangely-shaped new tower project is going up, as seen in Thursday’s MISCmedia MAIL, is NOT the site of El Corazon/The Funhouse, but an adjacent lot. Our apologies to all.

‘Slushmageddon’ arrives and makes a huge mess; viaduct demolition to finally start; school-bond ballots due today; Inslee’s ‘folksy’ national image-making.

The lovely/deadly snow remains and grows; why the Enquirer went after Bezos (maybe); Starbucks’ cofounder speaks out about Schultz; Beth’s Cafe is threatened by the usual local threat.

Awaiting a big-ass storm; ‘American Junkie’ comes to the stage; a verdict in the Ride the Ducks trial; Bezos sues National Enquirer for extortion; Woody Allen sues Amazon for breach of contract.

A perfect, beautiful (and dangerous) Snow Day; the Bertha tunnel opens and almost nobody notices; a prison food strike in eastern Wash.; Inslee keeps raising campaign cash.

Howard Schultz’s local campaign kickoff and its discontents; don’t look but the non-Viadoom’s over; facing ‘casual’ racism at Roosevelt HS; can drinking red wine help you lose weight?

20 years of the local online encyclopedia HistoryLink; where in the world is Seattle’s HR director?; Amazon won’t move into Rainier Square North (at least not right away); yes, the polar vortex is due to climate change.

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?

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

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.