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 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?

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.

A vital local mag meets an untimely end; thousands rally to defend the rule of law; a partial Ride the Ducks settlement’s announced; the Sounders run out of miracles.

Google workers protest what they call a toxic corporate culture; DSHS is ruled liable for foster kids’ safety; Chris Cornell’s widow sues his doctor.

Making Dungeons & Dragons less mono-gendered; the death of a local jazz legend; prayers for healing and compassion at a Seattle synagogue; a bike-share company wants to add cars.

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.

Seattle’s 29 kinds of surveillance; anti-bike-lane saboteurs; Amazon (heart)s ICE; can hot rivers be cooled down to save salmon?

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?

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