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  • Interns assigned to cover the Legislature

    Free Press Publishing|Updated Jan 21, 2021

    OLYMPIA – Three students are covering the state Legislature in Olympia this year for the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation. They are Sydney Brown, from Washington State University, Joseph Claypoole from the University of Washington, and Patric Haerle, also from the University of Washington. Brown, who graduated from WSU in December, served as Editor in Chief, Managing Editor, section editor and reporter at the Daily Evergreen, the student newspaper at W...

  • All-mail election needs immediacy

    Free Press Publishing|Updated Nov 12, 2020

    If we can provide it, maybe we should return to polling place voting Over the last few months, all eyes have been on Washington’s 16-year-old vote-by-mail system. National media has been holding it up as an example of what should become the norm nationwide. But should it? Yes, we have fastidious local election employees resolving problems. And yes, we have years of experience making vote-by-mail work. But the nation isn’t ready for all-mail elections, whether it’s our system or another state’s. Simply put, voting by mail ap...