Ginny Ruffler’s LED Aurora Borealis in Ballard; Legislature OKs more ‘micro apartments’ in more places; a proud ‘job hopper’ speaks up; Sounders and pre-season Mariners get started.

Black History Month art & music picks; cop who struck Jaahnavi Kandula won’t be charged; Seattle takes back part of Regional Homelessness Authority’s funding; Boeing’s 737 program head resigns.

Charles Peterson’s Nirvana pix in new book; charter school partly funded by Russell Wilson may have to close; man beaten by Lakewood cops says he hadn’t spit at them; remembering a ‘vivid’ abstract painter.

Local woman describes biking during the Dark Season (and liking it); rent stabilization passes state House; Mexican regulators go after Amazon; UW acquires thousands of Crocodile live-music recordings.

A pop up African American museum in Columbia City this month; a jury award in the case of Children’s Hospital mold infections; kids at a Seattle daycare secretly got fed melatonin; Ristorante Machiavelli’s suddenly closing.

Video game teaches mega-earthquake survival skills; repeal of ‘lewd conduct’ ban in bars passes state Senate; Starbucks told to rehire labor-organizing barista; WSP officers thought woman with ‘bleeding brain’ was just drunk.

Marita Dingus’s big sculptures made from recycled stuff; initiative launched to fund Seattle social housing; feds say missing bolts led to 737 MAX 9 debacle; 10 years since the Seahawks’ Super Bowl win.

Local conceptual artist’s documentations of futility; Ezell’s Famous Chicken marks 40 years (without Ezell); Chateau Ste. Michelle plans big developments (but no more winemaking on site); could end of ‘lewd conduct’ rules help strippers?

Ijeoma Oluo’s new book on how to ‘Be a Revolution;’ Christopher Rufo’s links to ‘scientific racism’ journal; King County youth jail won’t close any time soon; Seahawks to have NFL’s youngest head coach.

Auburn company’s historic role in donut making; the ‘former guy’ stays on WA Presidential ballot for now; winter mayhem continues to our north and south; light-rail maintenance disruption proves even more disruptive.

Comedian Pearl Lam takes on ‘reality’ TV in a one-woman show; more deadly winter-weather effects; Amazon buys a stake in several regional TV sports channels; ‘what happened to Seattle’s relationship with Boeing?’

K-Pop merch chain comes to town; Boeing names more production safeguards amid a second lawsuit; cold snap’s widespread damage to pipes and playfields; 50 African refugees refuse to return to Tukwila church tent encampment.

50 years since the Boldt Decision strengthened tribal fishing rights; frozen water pipes bursting all over; Ferguson asks feds to block big grocery merger; service and cynicism on MLK Day.

UW Huskies join Seahawks as (temporarily) coachless; precious works at Davidson Gallery burned; temp-Councilmember candidates down to eight; damn it’s cold!

An art installation for the dark season; lotsa folks wanna be a temp City Councilmember; SPD chief Diaz sued over sex and wage discrimination; we had a little snow with a chance for more.