Category: Live Coverage

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the eighth 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the great Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the eighth Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. I will be watch­ing and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. This debate is being held in Mia­mi, Flori­da, and is being broad­cast by Uni­vi­sion and CNN. You can livestream the debate from Uni­v­sion’s web­site. There […]

Posted inElections, Events, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the sixth 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the great Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the sixth Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. I will be watch­ing and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. The debate is being orga­nized and broad­cast by PBS affil­i­ates like KCTS 9, and simul­cast by CNN. If you don’t get PBS over the […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections, Live Coverage

Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump projected to win in New Hampshire after polls close

by Andrew Villeneuve

Now that most of the state’s polls have closed, Amer­i­ca’s cable and broad­cast net­works are pro­ject­ing that Bernie Sanders and Don­ald Trump — who each fin­ished sec­ond place in the Iowa cau­cus­es last week — have won the Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can 2016 pres­i­den­tial pri­maries in New Hamp­shire. Ear­ly unof­fi­cial results show both Sanders and Trump ahead. […]

Posted inLive Coverage, Party Politics

Snohomish County’s 5th District PCOs meet to choose nominees to succeed Dave Somers

by Rennie Sawade

Good morn­ing, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the spe­cial nom­i­nat­ing cau­cus to fill the coun­cil vacan­cy cre­at­ed by the elec­tion of Dave Somers as Sno­homish Coun­ty Exec­u­tive. This spe­cial nom­i­nat­ing cau­cus has been called by the Sno­homish Coun­ty Demo­c­ra­t­ic Cen­tral Com­mit­tee in accor­dance with state par­ty rules, to select three nom­i­nees to present […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the fifth 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the great Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the fourth Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. I will be watch­ing and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. The debate is being broad­cast by MSNBC. If you don’t have cable, you can livestream the debate online. Cour­tesy of MSNBC, here’s how you can […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the fourth 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the great Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the fourth Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. NPI Trea­sur­er Essie Hicks and I will be watch­ing the debate and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. The debate is being broad­cast by NBC and its affil­i­ates. Cour­tesy of NBC, here’s where you can watch: […]

Posted inLive Coverage

Live analysis: President Obama delivers final State of the Union Address to Congress

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to our live cov­er­age of Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma’s final State of the Union address. The speech is being broad­cast by all major broad­cast and cable news net­works, and you can also watch it at WhiteHouse.gov. Pres­i­dent Oba­ma is cur­rent­ly mak­ing his way to the U.S. Capi­tol via motor­cade, and the speech […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the third 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the great Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the third Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. NPI Trea­sur­er Essie Hicks and I will be watch­ing the debate and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. The debate is being broad­cast by ABC and its affil­i­ates. Cour­tesy of ABC, here’s where you can watch: […]

Posted inLive Coverage, Party Politics

LIVE from Seattle: 36th’s Democratic PCOs choose nominees to succeed Reuven Carlyle

by Andrew Villeneuve

Tonight, the King Coun­ty Demo­c­ra­t­ic Cen­tral Com­mit­tee (KCDCC) is hold­ing a spe­cial nom­i­nat­ing cau­cus con­sist­ing of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic PCOs in the 36th Leg­isla­tive Dis­trict to draw up a list of names to suc­ceed Reuven Car­lyle as State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive, in the event that he is cho­sen by the King Coun­ty Coun­cil to take the place of […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the second 2016 Democratic Presidential Debate from the great Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the sec­ond Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. Sev­er­al NPI staff and board mem­bers will be watch­ing the debate from Can­non Beach and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. The debate is being broad­cast by CBS and its affil­i­ates. Cour­tesy of CBS, here’s […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Democrat Carol Gregory trailing Republican Teri Hickel in hotly contested 30th LD race

by Dominic Barrera

In the 30th Leg­isla­tive Dis­tric­t’s $2 mil­lion con­test for State House, Demo­c­ra­t­ic incum­bent Car­ol Gre­go­ry is trail­ing first time Repub­li­can can­di­date Teri Hick­el by 1,035 votes, 53.92% to 46.08%. Gre­go­ry was appoint­ed to the seat fol­low­ing the death of State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Roger Free­man in 2014. Ear­ly results may be mis­lead­ing, as Gre­go­ry faced a sim­i­lar deficit […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Redmond Mayor John Marchione on his way to a third term; leads challenger Steve Fields

by Nick Pernisco

Hey, Nick Pernisco here for NPI. I’ll be ana­lyz­ing East­side elec­tion results tonight, and pay­ing par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to the cities of Belle­vue, Kirk­land, and Red­mond. There are sev­er­al hot races on the East­side this year. At the top of the list is the con­test between Clau­dia Bal­duc­ci and Jane Hague for King Coun­ty Coun­cil District […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Democrat Claudia Balducci crushes Jane Hague for King County Council, 6th District

by Nick Pernisco

The East­side of King Coun­ty con­tin­ues to turn blue. Belle­vue May­or Clau­dia Bal­duc­ci has emerged vic­to­ri­ous over long­time incum­bent Repub­li­can Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber Jane Hauge in the 6th Dis­trict (Belle­vue, Kirk­land, Mer­cer Island, and envi­rons), cap­tur­ing near­ly six­ty per­cent of the vote in ear­ly returns — a stun­ning, lop­sided result that few saw com­ing. Bal­duc­ci has made […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Progressive councilmembers Shelley Kloba, Dave Asher cruising to reelection in Kirkland

by Nick Pernisco

Kirk­land City Coun­cilmem­bers Shel­ley Klo­ba and Dave Ash­er have each earned new four year terms on the Kirk­land City Coun­cil, ear­ly results show. In the race for Posi­tion #2, Klo­ba is win­ning big against Chin­chilla, who appar­ent­ly isn’t even a Kirk­land res­i­dent. He vot­ed in Wal­la Wal­la last Novem­ber, and yet he still came out […]