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| | | Your Ballots Have Arrived! Now What? | If you’ve been listening to the podcast for any amount of time, you probably already know there’s an election on November 3. If you didn’t know, that’s okay, I still like you! But you probably got a pretty strong reminder this week: a ballot in your mailbox. If you’re registered to vote and the ballot doesn’t come in the next few days, the Secretary of State recommends you contact your county's elections office. If you do have that ballot handy, then you know there’s lots of bubbles to fill in, lots of the letter “I” followed by a bunch of numbers, and luckily for us, lots of local media happy to tell you exactly how to fill that thing out! [Secretary of State’s Office] | - Endorsements for sheeple of all stripes: You’re all busy people, you can’t follow every single race. There’s no shame in outsourcing some of that brainwork to local sources you trust. In the past few days, boards at the Seattle Times, The Stranger, The Urbanist, and the Progressive Voters Guide have all released their endorsements. You can also toy around with this new aggregator, Lefty Cheat Sheet or DM me on Instagram and we can goss!
- If you don’t like reading: You can also get to know candidates through these clips on Seattle Channel or learn more about the initiatives targeting LGBTQ+ kids right here on the podcast. If you’re in District 5, you can hear Jane speak with candidates Nilu Jenks and Julie Kang from last month. And lucky for voters in the south end, City Cast Seattle’s interim host Liam Billingham sat down for an interview with 37th legislative district candidates Jaelynn Scott and Kaleb Tewolde. That’ll be out next week.
- Follow the money: In my humble opinion, the best way to find out what a candidate or initiative is all about is to see who is funding it. Like, is your ideal state representative someone who is utterly beholden to their big tech funders? Do you trust a City Council candidate who attracts dark money from donors too scared to face basic transparency laws? I’ve been chasing some of these campaign finance stories, and I’m sure I’ll have even more in the coming days! [The Burner]
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| | | This week on Weaving our Future: King County has grown fast, but so many don't earn enough to keep up with the high cost of living, and face limited opportunity to build family and community wealth. How do we make sure everyone benefits from our region's explosive growth? How do we build an economy that works for everyone? In this episode we explore dignity at work and new models for business and community development with Ana Gaeta, Deric Gruen, and the amazing Jane C. Hu. |
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| What Seattle’s Talking About |
| 🌈 WA lets foster parents be homophobes: A conservative legal advocacy group won a settlement with Washington, and now the state can no longer require foster parents to provide a supportive home to LGBTQ+ kids. The firm argued that the State violated a Christian couple's constitutional rights when it denied the renewal of their fostering license after they wouldn’t agree to be chill about their foster kids’ potential queerness. [KUOW] | | | 💸 No raise for Bob Ferguson: Gov. Bob Ferguson will not get a raise this year. This stands in contrast to the panel’s previous decision in 2024 to give him a 14% bump over two years, bringing him to a cool $234,275 a year. But if I were him, I wouldn’t dare complain! He offered thousands of State employees a 0% raise in contract negotiations this year — amounting to a pay cut when accounting for inflation. [Washington State Standard] | | 🤧 ’Tis the season: The flu has arrived in the Pacific Northwest, which is tough to believe when it still feels a little like summer some of these October days. Don’t let the weather fool you. Experts say the time to get your flu shot is now. Already in this earlier-than-usual flu season, nine people in King County have died from the flu. So let’s keep each other safe and get the jab! Here’s where to go. [KUOW] | |
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