Upthegrove led in early results with about 53% of the vote. Jaime Herrera Beutler had about 47%, after Tuesday’s first vote counts. The elected leader of the Department of Natural Resources oversees nearly...
After the first ballots were counted statewide, here’s where the four statewide initiatives stood: Initiative 2117 to repeal the cap-and-invest program: 38% voted Yes to repeal, 62% voted No to keep. Initiative...
Jennyfer Mesa, executive director of Latinos en Spokane (LES), said elections are always stressful for “mixed status” communities, in which some people have been in the U.S. for generations — some are...
The largest mass deportation in history, called “Operation Wetback,” dates back to the 1950s under the Eisenhower administration, an initiative about which Trump has often spoken highly.Last year at a rally in...
Iyall is a candidate for the state Senate from the 22nd District, which includes Olympia, Lacey and Tumwater. If elected, he would be one of four Native Americans in the legislature.Lekanoff is...
Since at least 2008, no Democratic legislative candidates in the 12th District have broken 40% in a primary or the general – and in some years no Democrats were on the ballot...
Initiative 2066, which would prohibit laws that discourage natural gas use or promote electrification, and which would instead require utilities to provide natural gas to customers, was the only initiative that got...
The delegates approved a resolution emphasizing that the United States is a republic, not a democracy, and asserting that “every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of...
