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A Fairer Election System in Alaska Helped More Independents Win Office
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UPDATED: 50 Housing Bills and How They Fared in Olympia
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Hey, Olympia! If You Let Them, Cities Could Double Turnout in Local Elections
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Seven Reasons Washington Needs Middle Housing
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Alaska Primary Voters Had More Choice in 2022
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Washington Should Move All Elections to Even Years
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Northwest States Need to Build New Power Lines, Fast
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A Guide to Portland’s Charter Change
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A Guide to Alaska’s November 2022 Election
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When Cities Switch To One-Winner Council Districts, Housing Growth Plummets
A new 11th-hour idea for rewriting the rules of Portland’s city government has several possible flaws, but here’s one: statistically speaking, it’d be likely to worsen the city’s housing shortage. The proposal was publicly floated in a media interview three weeks ago by its loudest advocate, city Commissioner Mingus Mapps. Mapps’s idea, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive: to scrap the concept hammered out by a city-appointed citizen commission over the last...Read more »