Tag: WA-Cities

The Emer­ald City will have a new May­or by the end of 2021. Incum­bent Jen­ny Durkan says she’s decid­ed not to seek a sec­ond term, and will instead focus on gov­ern­ing dur­ing her last year in office. 

NPI’s home­town is begin­ning a new era under new man­age­ment with May­or Angela Bir­ney and new Coun­cilmem­bers Var­isha Khan, Jes­si­ca Forsythe, and Vanes­sa Kritzer.

Red­mond vot­ers have made his­to­ry by elect­ing a young, dynam­ic Mus­lim woman to serve on their City Coun­cil through 2023. 

Like come­back sto­ries? In NPI’s home­town, there’s been a stun­ning devel­op­ment in one of four con­test­ed city coun­cil races this year. 

Right wing forces try­ing to hijack the Seat­tle sub­urb of Burien have resort­ed to incred­i­bly des­per­ate mea­sures to win. But one pro­gres­sive can­di­date says he sees a sil­ver lin­ing in all the ugliness.

Talk about a razor-thin race: In the con­test for Seat­tle City Coun­cil, Dis­trict #1, Top Two final­ists Lisa Her­bold and Shan­non Brad­dock are now sep­a­rat­ed by a mere six votes — out of over twen­­ty-two thou­sand cast! That’s a mar­gin of one house­hold. Take a look at the num­bers fol­low­ing the lat­est tab­u­la­tion: City of […]

Late bal­lots are once again cre­at­ing intrigue in Seat­tle City Coun­cil races, for the sec­ond cycle in a row. Although incum­bent Bruce Har­rell (run­ning in Dis­trict 2) was ahead by a com­fort­able mar­gin on Elec­tion Night, he and Dis­trict 1 can­di­date Shan­non Brad­dock (long­time chief of staff to Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber Joe McDer­mott) have seen their […]