Even as the Delta variant and breakthrough COVID infections have us masking up again, all signs point to a state that’s opening back up. Small businesses are hiring. People are out. Vaccination rates are up. As a psychiatry resident in Seattle, I’m seeing more patients in-person. People with low-risk jobs and resources generally feel optimistic. Others who’ve seen their work obliterated, had to choose between family and career, or are on the brink of homelessness.
Washington Mandates Vaccines for Most Government and Health Care Workers
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Washington Recommends Masking in Indoor Public Places Regardless of Vaccination Status, in Line With CDC Guidelines
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Jockeying for 2024 plays out on Trump s turf: The Note
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by Rich Smith • May 7, 2021 at 4:40 pm
The game is afoot. Lester Black
Many of Seattle s mayoral campaign representatives have praised the city s unique public campaign financing program for limiting the influence of big donors and creating time and space for candidates to run on the issues. But that dynamic will soon change now that an independent expenditure supporting former Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell has officially filed with the city s elections commission.
Campaigns that participate in the city s Democracy Voucher Program face firm caps on fundraising and spending, but fundraising groups called independent expenditures (IEs) or PACs can raise and spend as much as they d like to support or oppose candidates, so long as they do not coordinate with those candidates. Once PAC and campaign fundraising in any given race exceeds the voucher program s spending limit, other candidates in those races can ask the electi