Snowpocalypse 2019 coincides with the Bertha Tunnel’s debut; Portland could get bigtime baseball after all; can the Lava Lounge block (and the Montlake Market) be saved?

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?

Remembering Northwest photo master Mary Randlett; the Lava Lounge and neighbors are threatened with removal again; women’s-soccer Reign headed south; still more Howard Schultz dissing.

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 Internet-history TV series depicts Bill Gates as a puppet; folks say many (unkind) words about Howard Schultz; a Libyan-born comedian is harassed by Border Patrol; yet another housing-crisis bureaucracy.

A new museum show remembers McNeil Island prison; the federal shutdown’s over (for now); why WSDOT’s buying ads for the Bertha tunnel; a bakery owner apologizes for a ‘Build the Wall’ cookie.

It’s 100 years since Seattle’s General Strike; the dreaded Viadoom’s still not here; a big settlement follows an SFD ambulance crash; is the shutdown making airports less safe?

Franklin High woodshop students remember a classmate; there’s no Upstream Music Fest in ’19; the state won’t ban ‘booth rentals’ at hair salons after all; the librarians are here!

Mariner legend Edgar Martinez makes the Hall of Fame at last; what’s really in Microsoft’s affordable-housing pledge?; federal shutdown delays Paine Field’s passenger debut.

Speakers and marchers call to continue MLK’s fight; orcas aren’t ‘in the pink’; Seattle’s long-threatened ‘Carmageddon’ still isn’t here; Boeing’s new quality-control plan means fewer human inspectors.

The Seattle Womxn’s March gets smaller but stays adamant; a Paul Allen company downsizes; a talk-radio host boasts about lawbreaking; still more shutdown fallout as the latest proposed “deal” gets dissed.

A sea cruise with a pompous talk-radio host; more on MS’s big affordable-housing plan; 1st Avenue streetcar lives!; Sounders team up with a local e-commerce firm (no, not THAT one).

Northgate’s original ‘anchor store’ will go away; still more climate-change ickiness; BC tribes want to buy that big pipeline project; Pramila Jayapal may co-preside on any impeachment drive.

Amazon coders are working on a project that could make some coding jobs obsolete; UFOs still light up Wash. skies; Inslee wants ‘clean electricity’ to power the state; Carol Channing RIP.

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?