The Ins and the Outs for the year when we (somehow, we hope) begin to get rid of the goons running and ruining everything in DC.

New Octavia Butler biography; US 2 eastbound opening again (with limits); four die in alleged Eastside murder/suicide; ‘Somali child care providers in WA being harassed.’

Ode to a favorite light-rail station; migrant farmworkers face ‘fear and uncertainty;’ Ferguson’s mostly-cuts budget plan and its discontents; the intersection of politics, religion, and AI.

Art by loved ones of the incarcerated; city buys Talaris property in Laurelhurst; Bush Garden reopening at new site after two-year delay; proposing a ‘180 degree turn’ approach to the climate crises.

‘The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show’ returns; massive windstorm threat also returns; Ferguson proposes drastic budget cuts but supports income tax on millionaires; most striking Starbucks workers returning to work.

Candy Cane Lane endures; flood cleanup continues; climate change’s big role in the floods; city council approves ‘stacked flat’ apartments on residential lots.

New nonprofit arts/performance space; ICE arrests surge while detention conditions deteriorate; big windstorm power outages continue; who’s behind mysterious right-wing political entity ‘Washington Rising’?

The historic ‘bus riders’ depicted on a Rainier Ave. mural; another local levee breaks; two farms accused of keeping workers on the job during flood evacuations; Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy.

Burke exhibit brings tribal artists in on the creation/curation; some light-rail stations could get fare gates; Microsoft reportedly ‘scales back AI goals;’ waiting for Atmospheric River II.

Photo book celebrates local waters; floods keep causing major mayhem and damage around the state; WA as a potential haven for ‘climate refugees;’ the latest way to perk up local nightlife: vintage stores?

MOHAI explores intersections of women, queer-lib, and motorcycles; Seattle’s soul-food queen dies; Wild Waves gets one more year; over 100,000 may evacuate region’s ‘catastrophic’ floods.

Personal notes get translated into fabric in local artist’s exhibit; WA defends voter privacy and Planned Parenthood from the feds; Boeing cleared to buy back Spirit Aerosystems; ‘South Hill Rapist’ dies.

Annual Sheraton ‘Gingerbread Village;’ feds sue state to get voter-registration data; Ferguson to submit ‘all-cuts budget;’ SPD killing near Othello station.

Bookseller Peter Miller on Pioneer Square’s future; Little Red Hen suing to stop eviction; state lawmakers prepare for big budget cuts; are Gas Works’ legacy structures a ‘public nuisance’?

Ancient natural ‘abstract sculptures’ on display; DC shooting suspect’s Bellingham connection; state sues to stop SNAP cuts to lawful permanent residents; Alaska earthquake gets felt down here.