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Daily Archives: October 19th, 2015

Liveblogging the 2015 Canadian federal election from the great Pacific Northwest

Excerpt: Good after­noon! Today marks the end of a sev­en­ty-eight day cam­paign in Cana­da to deter­mine who will gov­ern the Unit­ed States’ most impor­tant neigh­bor for the next few years. We’ve been fol­low­ing the cam­paign from a dis­tance for the last few weeks, and tonight we’ll be shar­ing impres­sions with you as the results come in. This […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections, Live Coverage
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City of Seattle joins coalition opposing Tim Eyman’s awful I‑1366 with unanimous vote

Excerpt: The broad, diverse, bipar­ti­san coali­tion fight­ing to defeat Tim Eyman’s awful Ini­tia­tive 1366 by Novem­ber 3rd just keeps on get­ting bigger. Today, the Seat­tle City Coun­cil vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly to put the state’s largest munic­i­pal­i­ty on record as opposed to I‑1366, which would slash $8 bil­lion in sales tax rev­enue over the next six years — […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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