Our top two advance primary is doing a disservice to voters, especially in crowded races.
With Seattle’s 2021 mayoral election looming and Mayor Jenny Durkan’s announcement she’s not running for reelection, the field could become quite crowded in the next few months. The 2017 election that also featured no incumbent. Durkan and Cary Moon ran in the general election, but before that we utilized a top two blanket primary to determine who would participate in that general election. In a rather crowded field, our system produced a result that advanced the winners of only 45.5% of the vote, sidelining the votes of a majority of 2017 primary voters.
The Russian hack? Gets worse.
Argentina will only allow one more flight from the UK to land in Buenos Aires: And then it s a temporary ban due to the UK s virus strain problem. Belgium will block travelers from the UK. So will Chile, Denmark, France, and a long list of other countries. In Washington state? Well: Inslee’s new proclamation requires anyone arriving in Washington from [the United Kingdom and a handful of other countries] within the last 14 days to quarantine for 14 days and the restriction applies to those who have recently arrived. Weak sauce. Here s the presser:
Britons feel profoundly isolated by this early taste of Brexit, reports the
Top stories of 2020 in Washington state
In the longest, shortest year in most of our lives, a lot happened. Recap the year with us and look ahead to 2021.
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2020 had no shortage of news events, from a global pandemic and an election year to another reckoning with systemic racism and wildfires across the West. (Clockwise from top left: Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dan DeLong/InvestigateWest; Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
The word of the year has to be “unprecedented.” It’s maddening, overused and, unfortunately, true. Time feels simultaneously frozen and moving at least a million miles an hour. As a result, it can be difficult to remember what the heck happened these past 12 months between our bouts of reading
No Ruling on Temporary Restraining Order Against the City Judge Denies TRO by Nathalie Graham • Dec 17, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Activists and encampment dwellers are still prepared for a sweep. Nathalie Graham
Is the city going to sweep the Cal Anderson Park homeless encampment or not? For now, the answer is still a big question mark. The decision hinges on whether U.S. District Court Judge Richard A. Jones decides to go forward with a temporary restraining order (TRO) filed against the city yesterday.
The decision was supposed to come out this morning. It still hasn t. The court is edging us. However, new information provided by the city this afternoon may sway the decision in the city s favor.