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Beast Mode’s back: Marshawn Lynch re-signs with Seahawks for NFC West title game, playoffs
Beast Mode is back. Marshawn Lynch re-signed with the Seahawks Monday night after almost four full years away, and 14 months since his last NFL game. Continue reading in the Bellingham Herald. (Joshua Bessex)
Sound Transit to seek car-tab changes with more urgency
Sound Transit leaders plan to press state lawmakers in 2020 to change the law on how car tabs are calculated. Acknowledging the frustration of voters expressed through Initiative 976, the board of directors of the regional transit authority agreed last week to ask legislators to ditch a two-decade-old depreciation schedule in favor of one that would base annual assessments on the “true current value” of a vehicle. Continue reading in the Everett Herald. (Sue Misao/The Herald)
Five earthquakes, up to magnitude 6.0, rumbled British Columbia on Monday
A series of five earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 4.8 to 6.0 was recorded Monday in British Columbia. Four of the five quakes were recorded as striking primarily on Vancouver Island and at the northern end of Victoria Island in Port Alice and Port Hardy, according to the government’s Earthquakes Canada website. Continue reading in The Seattle Times.
Associated Press
December car-tab renewal notices sent late due to I-976
CWU requests security upgrades after false shooter report
Bust out the Skittles because Marshawn Lynch is returning to the Seahawks
Aberdeen Daily World
Where is the Lady Grace? Sunken vessel in Hoquiam River slated for removal nowhere to be found
North Beach community rallies to erase student lunch debt
LGBTQ+ forum urges steps for the school district
Commmentary: Wild Olympics — wilderness label comes with a cost
Bellingham Herald (subscription required)
745-foot propane tanker crashes into Intalco pier at Cherry Point, officials confirm
Here’s what to do if you run into the invasive Asian giant hornet found in Blaine
Here’s how warming in the Cascades impacts the Nooksack River in Whatcom County
Series of strong and moderate quakes strike Monday off Vancouver Island
Beast Mode’s back: Marshawn Lynch re-signs with Seahawks for NFC West title game, playoffs
Chinook Observer
Pacific Transit manager nervous about possible upcoming 2020 budget cuts (Takko)
Everett Herald (subscription required)
Holiday driving might be easier, but ferries will be packed
Bloomberg: For Boeing’s new CEO, saving the Max is only the first hurdle
Bloomberg: Boeing discloses new set of 737 Max messages to regulators
Sound Transit to seek car-tab changes with more urgency (Fey, Hobbs)
Harrop: Importing cheap drugs from Canada not going to happen
Island’s Weekly
Provision to monitor noise of naval operations to be included in National Defense Authorization Act
Kitsap Sun (subscription required)
Navy clamps down on local base access at Bremerton, Bangor
Port of Brownsville works to contain minor fuel spill
Are you an employer? Know these law changes for 2020
News Tribune (subscription required)
Pierce County child dies of flu-related complications
New York Times
G.O.P. Lawmaker Had Visions of a Christian Alternative Government
Boeing Can’t Fly Its 737 Max, but It’s Ready to Sell Its Safety
Oped: Be Paranoid About Privacy
Olympian (subscription required)
28-year-old Nisqually jail inmate found unconscious died in Olympia hospital Sunday
Puget Sound Business Journal
Sawant weighs public vote on new ‘Amazon tax’
Analysts: Boeing needed a CEO change, but is David Calhoun right pick?
Seattle Times (subscription required)
More ‘troubling’ internal Boeing 737 MAX documents released to FAA
Lime will take its green bikes off Seattle streets until at least spring
New study: Adaptive cruise-control and other driver-assistance systems may increase distracted driving
More Seattle retail workers received schedules in advance during first year of new city law
Five earthquakes, up to magnitude 6.0, rumbled British Columbia on Monday
Pierce County child dies of complications from flu
New details about Pierce County deputy who died in crash rushing to help with difficult arrest
Seattle schools will exclude non-vaccinated students starting Jan. 8. Here’s a list of free immunization clinics.
Central Washington University requests $3.28 million for security after false shooter report
Car-tab confusion: The state was up to 6 weeks late in mailing 525,600 December renewal bills
Editorial: A wish for peace in the season of light
Spokesman Review
Local therapists advise navigating politics during the holidays
Top Dogs: Gonzaga ranked No. 1 for fifth time in program history
Decade in review: More insurance, more consolidation, more medical education in Spokane
USA Today
Were the predictions we made about climate change 20 years ago accurate? Here’s a look
Donald Trump promotes White House aide who refused to testify in impeachment inquiry
Amazon is watching, listening and tracking you. Here’s how to stop it
Analysis: Trump more negative, prolific on Twitter amid Democratic impeachment inquiry
Amid claims of ‘political favoritism,’ FBI is asking questions about former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s pardons
Washington Post
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines
Trump lashes out at Pelosi, Democrats after exchanging holiday greetings with troop
Opinion: Could Democrats impeach Trump twice? They might have to.
Statistics of the Year — 2019 edition
Jayapal: India’s foreign minister refused me. I won’t stop speaking out on human rights.
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick will leave the company’s board
Rudy Giuliani, a Catholic, says he is ‘more of a Jew’ than George Soros, who survived the Holocaust
NBC suspends hockey analyst after sexual comments about co-workers on Barstool Sports podcast
For ex-inmates, support program gives them a second chance to avoid addiction, improve health care
Broadcast
KING5 TV (NBC)
Washington state December car-tab renewal notices sent late
WSU freshman from Bellevue died of alcohol poisoning, coroner says
There were more U.S. mass shootings in 2019 than days on the calendar
KOMO4 TV (ABC)
‘This hasn’t been done before’: UW study offers real-time testing for flu virus
KNKX FM
You’ll have to be 21 to buy cigarettes or vape products in Washington starting Jan. 1, 2020 (Pollet)
Nameless graves: Officials look to correct ‘disrespect’ at old McNeil Island prison cemetery
KUOW FM
Lime bikes to leave Seattle streets by end of year
Plans to beef up Amtrak Cascades service in 2020 beset by multiple uncertainties
Newly Released Emails Fuel Democrats’ Trial Requests, As McConnell Stands Firm
Q13 TV (Fox)
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is out after disastrous year
Washington state December car-tab renewal notices sent late
Web
Crosscut
Built to last, not to please: Why you can’t ignore the Cosmic Crisp
10 of the wildest discoveries Washington scientists made in 2019
Crosscut’s 2019 in photos
Slog
It’s Time to Nationalize Boeing
Humanitarian Groups Outraged Over Concessions in Military Spending Bill