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by Rich Smith • Aug 3, 2021 at 4:25 pm So. Many. Mailers. Rich Smith The people running for local office (and the deep-pocketed independent expenditures that support some of them) have spent the last couple weeks making their closing arguments to voters. They ve also ramped up spending to make sure voters hear those arguments as loudly as legally possible. In a last-minute push to get out the vote and answer any lingering questions the electorate might have, over the weekend several campaigns donned personal protective equipment and hit the doors. Many of them discovered a theme: despite plenty of mailers in mailboxes and ads on television, a fair number of voters still had no idea who they planned to vote for. ....
Where Seattle is on police reforms, one year after protests Top-down police oversight requirements and grassroots organizations demanding fundamental changes to policing put City Hall in the hot seat. by Protesters face off with Seattle police in Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood, July 25, 2020. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut) The city’s timing couldn’t have been worse. Just as the protests against police violence were cresting last summer, lawyers and elected officials in Seattle City Hall argued to a judge that most federal oversight of the city’s police department should be lifted. The request was the culmination of nearly a decade under the eye of the federal court. But to the protesters on the streets, it looked like the city was attempting to shed police accountability at a time when thousands of people were demanding more. ....
Holby City, Vampire Academy) returns in the lead role of Issie Brown and is joined once again by New Zealanders Antonia Robinson, Max Crean, Jacqueline Joe ( Top of the Lake), Josh Tan ( Mulan, Tales of Nai Nai) and Harriet Walton. In the new seasons, Issie and her gang of horse-mad friends will not only have to tackle all the usual trials and tribulations of being a teenager – romance, identity, friendship and conflict with parents - but will also have to battle against new and unexpected threats to their beloved stables and local environment. In season two, their lives will be thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a ....
Black community leaders push for progress after Chauvin verdict Suzanne Phan, KOMO News Reporter Black community leaders push for progress after Chauvin verdict Replay Video Leaders in the Black community are breathing a sigh of relief because of the Derek Chauvin verdict. But they said the work is just beginning. Like many people, Reverend Harriett Walden was on pins and needles until the Chauvin verdict was announced on Tuesday. “Yeah it was a sigh of relief,” Walden said. Rev. Walden founded Mothers for Police Accountability more than three decades ago. “30 years after Rodney King and the first camera, this camera, this recording that the young girl did brought about a conviction. Otherwise it would have been just another story,” Walden said. ....
Seattle police accountability advocate welcomes verdict Essex Porter Decades before this summer’s huge rallies for racial justice, Seattle’s Harriet Walden was leading Mothers for Police Accountability. Today’s three guilty verdicts for George Floyd’s killer brought her to tears. “Oh man, I’m just thinking about him calling his mother,” she said, sharing what went through her mind as the verdicts were read. Seattle’s Walden founded Mothers for Police Accountability 31 years ago. “(George Floyd) changed the world. His untimely murder has changed the world in a lot of ways. I mean, in this state, Washington going to have some accountability that’s going to come out, the governor’s going to sign,” she said. ....