Young people: You have one more day until an election day that could land Seattle a new, lefty Mayor, a City Attorney who's not a Republican, and a more progressive City Council. And it looks like you’re holding onto those ballots until the last minute!  According to   King County Elections ballot return statistics , only 16.18% of registered voters have cast a ballot so far. Of course, that number will continue to climb until election day. For instance, almost 40% of ballots

Earlier this week, Gov. Bob Ferguson directed almost $2.2 million in state funding per week to provide additional support to Washington’s food banks as working families brace for their federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to freeze due to the ongoing, Republican-driven shutdown of the federal government.  That’s cool. It’s not enough.  As Ferguson acknowledged in his press release earlier this week, about 930,000 Washingtonians receive SNAP benefi

The Kids Table  (TKT) –– a new Seattle-focused PAC advocating for “pro-Jewish” candidates and against antisemitism, “illiberalism,” and “radical voices,” –– is pouring unusually large sums of money into the Seattle school board election, races that typically do not see outside spending. If their candidates win, TKT will have achieved their stated goal to introduce “risk for candidates who condone (explicitly or implicitly) or endorse [antisemitism or radicalism]” — candidates