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Daily Archives: July 25th, 2011

County Council hopeful Richard Mitchell gaining strength as August 16th approaches

Excerpt: Full Dis­clo­sure: I per­son­al­ly sup­port Richard Mitchel­l’s cam­paign for coun­ty coun­cil in my capac­i­ty as Sec­ond Vice Chair of the King Coun­ty Democ­rats. NPI does not endorse or make finan­cial con­tri­bu­tions to can­di­dates for elect­ed office.  Only a few days remain until King Coun­ty Elec­tions begins mail­ing out bal­lots for the August 16th win­now­ing elec­tion. […]
Published at:9:32 PM on Monday, July 25th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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Parents, teachers, students go to court to get Tim Eyman’s I‑1053 overturned

Excerpt: A coali­tion rep­re­sent­ing par­ents, teach­ers, stu­dents, and law­mak­ers announced this morn­ing that it has filed a law­suit in King Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court ask­ing that Tim Eyman and BP’s Ini­tia­tive 1053 be ful­ly strick­en from the Revised Code of Wash­ing­ton because it is bla­tant­ly unconstitutional. Plain­tiffs include the League of Edu­ca­tion Vot­ers, Wash­ing­ton Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion, State […]
Published at:11:05 AM on Monday, July 25th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Unscheduled Programming
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