Tag: WA-Counties

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Dow Constantine: Join me in supporting Best Starts for Kids (King County Proposition 1)

by Dow Constantine

Edi­tor’s Note: It is our great plea­sure tonight to wel­come King Coun­ty Exec­u­tive Dow Con­stan­tine to NPI’s Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate. In this spe­cial guest post, Exec­u­tive Con­stan­tine explains why it is crit­i­cal that we pass King Coun­ty Propo­si­tion #1, the Best Starts for Kids levy, this Novem­ber. NPI has tak­en a posi­tion enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly sup­port­ing this measure, […]

Posted inElections

Ballots mailed for 2015 general election across Washington State

by Andrew Villeneuve

Elec­tions offi­cials across Wash­ing­ton State announced today that bal­lots are in the mail to the vast major­i­ty of the state’s three and half mil­lion reg­is­tered vot­ers, fol­low­ing last mon­th’s dis­tri­b­u­tion of bal­lots to over­seas and mil­i­tary vot­ers. “This elec­tion may not have the siz­zle of the pres­i­­den­­tial-year elec­tion like we’ll have in 2016, but we […]

Posted inElections, Series & Special Reports

Filing Week 2015: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Monday afternoon

by Andrew Villeneuve

Wel­come to Fil­ing Week 2015! Today through Fri­day, elec­tions offi­cials around the state will be accept­ing for­mal dec­la­ra­tions of can­di­da­cy from Wash­ing­to­ni­ans who have decid­ed they want to run for office at the local lev­el (and, in a cou­ple leg­isla­tive dis­tricts, the state lev­el). There are many impor­tant con­tests with­in King Coun­ty on the bal­lot this year, […]

Posted inElections, Policy Topics, Public Planning

Live in King County? Vote Yes by April 28th, 2015 to upgrade our region’s emergency public safety radio network

by Andrew Villeneuve

April may not seem like an elec­tion month, but in Wash­ing­ton, it’s actu­al­ly one of two times dur­ing the year when local juris­dic­tions may sched­ule spe­cial elec­tions, most often for the pur­pose of send­ing the vot­ers a levy for their con­sid­er­a­tion. This year, the nine-mem­ber King Coun­ty Coun­cil has opt­ed to place a propo­si­tion on […]

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State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles confirms she’ll run for King County Council, District 4

by Andrew Villeneuve

This after­noon, State Sen­a­tor Jeanne Kohl-Welles made it offi­cial: She’s run­ning to suc­ceed Lar­ry Phillips as the coun­cilmem­ber for King Coun­ty’s 4th Dis­trict, which encom­pass­es neigh­bor­hoods on the Puget Sound side of North Seat­tle, includ­ing Bal­lard and Green­wood. And she is doing so with Phillips’ sup­port. “It’s been an incred­i­ble priv­i­lege, hon­or and plea­sure representing […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections

King County Councilmember Larry Phillips won’t seek reelection, will retire at year’s end

by Andrew Villeneuve

King Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber Lar­ry Phillips, long a fix­ture on the state’s largest coun­ty’s leg­isla­tive body, announced today he has decid­ed not to run again in Novem­ber and will retire at the end of the year, when his cur­rent term expires. “It has been an hon­or and a priv­i­lege to serve the peo­ple of King County […]

Posted inPolicy Topics, Public Planning

King County Medic One renewal levy passing overwhelmingly with 80%+ in favor

by Andrew Villeneuve

King Coun­ty vot­ers have giv­en a big thumbs up to Medic One, approv­ing a levy that renews fund­ing for emer­gency med­ical response ser­vices for sev­er­al more years and ensur­ing that King Coun­ty remains the best place in the world to be in the very unfor­tu­nate event of a heart attack (or car­diac arrest, to use […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage, Our Environment, Policy Topics

LIVE from Bellingham: Council candidates share their vision for Whatcom County

by Patrick Stickney

Here comes the home stretch of yet anoth­er elec­tion sea­son. As cam­paigns move into get-out-the-vote mode, vol­un­teers are phonebank­ing and knock­ing on doors, can­di­dates hope to make an impact on more civi­cal­ly active vot­ers by speak­ing at forums. While many of these just serve to engage the base and get a few more peo­ple to […]

Posted inBreaking News, Public Service

King County Council appoints Rod Dembowski to succeed Bob Ferguson in 1st District

by Andrew Villeneuve

This just in from the King Coun­ty Cour­t­house: Min­utes ago, in a unan­i­mous 8–0 vote, the King Coun­ty Coun­cil chose attor­ney Rod Dem­bows­ki to suc­ceed Bob Fer­gu­son as the next Coun­cilmem­ber from the 1st Dis­trict (North Seat­tle, Shore­line, Lake For­est Park, Wood­inville, Both­ell, Ken­more, Kirk­land). Dem­bows­ki was one of three indi­vid­u­als named by King County […]

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Three more unions endorse Richard Mitchell for King County Council

by Andrew Villeneuve

King Coun­ty Coun­cil hope­ful Richard Mitchell, who pulled off a very strong show­ing in the August win­now­ing elec­tion thanks in part to the enthu­si­as­tic sup­port of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, has just received the sup­port of three key unions with sig­nif­i­cant mem­ber­ship in King Coun­ty, his cam­paign announced today. Sev­er­al weeks ago, the Amal­ga­mat­ed Tran­sit Union […]

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Winnowing election update: Not many ballots tabulated today; little to report

by Andrew Villeneuve

It looks like the turnout in the August 2011 win­now­ing elec­tion has crest­ed. In the days fol­low­ing elec­tion night, we saw steady improve­ment in the ratio of bal­lots cast to reg­is­tered vot­ers. But the num­bers hard­ly changed at all today. On Fri­day, the turnout ratio in the King Coun­ty Coun­cil Dis­trict #6 race was 30.37%. […]

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End of the week numbers are in for August winnowing election: Mitchell still gaining

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good after­noon! King Coun­ty Elec­tions has opt­ed to update results for the 2011 win­now­ing elec­tion a bit ear­ly today — so, hap­pi­ly, we’re able to break down new num­bers soon­er than we oth­er­wise would have. In the con­test for King Coun­ty Coun­cil, Dis­trict #6, Richard Mitchell con­tin­ues to climb… and Jane Hague con­tin­ues to slide. Mitchell […]

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Richard Mitchell again widens lead in county council race; John Creighton admits defeat

by Andrew Villeneuve

Less than an hour ago, King Coun­ty Elec­tions updat­ed unof­fi­cial results for the August 16th win­now­ing elec­tion with a batch of fresh­­ly-tab­u­lat­ed bal­lots. The new num­bers con­firm that Richard Mitchell will be mov­ing on to the gen­er­al elec­tion with Jane Hague in the 6th Coun­ty Coun­cil dis­trict race, as we pro­ject­ed yes­ter­day. Here’s how the […]