Just in time for your holiday shopping, beloved local historian Joe Drazan offers several hundred used books of all topics and sizes for sale at the incredible price of $3 each.

Representative Julio Cortes, D-Everett, was born in Mexico City and immigrated to the U.S. with his family when he was 6 years old. Four decades later, he became a member of the Washington State House of Representatives.
Jadenne Radoc Cabahug of Cascade PBS

Governor-elect Bob Ferguson and Attorney General-elect Nick Brown are readying their legal teams to challenge Trump-backed policies that go against Washington laws.
Laura Demkoich, Washington State Standard

In separate speeches, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden demonstrated the right way to honor the results of an election and transfer power peacefully to Donald Trump.

There’s a dirty Trump trick you need to look out for. He used it in 2020 to try to overturn the election, and he’s going to do it again. But it doesn’t work if you know it’s coming. 
Robert Reich

The vice president gazed into the mirror, reached out her hand, and told her comedic reflection that she had this election thing in the bag.

A poll of likely Iowa voters includes those who have already voted as well as those who say they definitely plan to vote was conducted by Selzer & Co. from Oct. 28-31.

Harris is leading Trump 47% to 44% among likely voters in Iowa, according to the poll, which has a margin of error of ± 3.4 points. 

More than 75,000 spectators gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear Vice President Kamala Harris' closing argument speech at the same site of former President Donald Trump's infamous "Save America" rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

As one of the country’s very few family-owned and -operated metro newspapers left, The Seattle Times is also apparently one of the few whose editorial board is willing to endorse presidential candidates.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance insisted that Donald Trump’s attacks on “the enemy within” were not directed at Democratic Party leaders but dissenting Americans he described as “far-left lunatics” poised to riot if the former president wins in November.

Michelle Obama stood before a crowd at an event center in Kalamazoo on the first day of early voting in Michigan and confessed she was frustrated — and a “little angry” — at some of the things she’s heard about why people are holding back on support for Vice President Harris.

Speaking to a room of undecided voters, Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday night sought to remind the electorate why it rejected former President Donald J. Trump in 2020, dismissing his fitness for office and calling him a fascist.

Vice President Kamala Harris engaged in a combative interview with Fox News on Wednesday, sparring with anchor Bret Baier on immigration and shifting policy positions while asserting that if elected, she would not represent a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Former president Barack Obama speaks to a crowd of Kamala Harris supporters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Thursday, October 10, 2024. He is introduced by Senator Bob Casey.

With 26 days to go until the General Election, Kamala Harris began the next phase of her sprint to the White House. On Monday and Tuesday, she completed several high-profile television interviews as part of her media blitz leading up to Election Day.

Sal Mungia, a candidate for Associate Justice on the Washington State Supreme Court, was our meeting’s featured speaker. The Walla Walla County Democrats Central Committee has endorsed him for this position.

The Walla Walla Branch of the American Association of University Women sponsored two candidate forums.

On September 24, AAUW hosted Carmela Conroy and Michael Baumgartner in Cordiner Hall on the Whitman College campus.

On September 24, AAUW hosted the Legislative District 16 candidates in the Performing Arts Center at Walla Walla Community College.

Videos of both forums are presented here.

Here are two events you don’t want to miss.

5:30 pm: AAUW Candidates’ Forum with the LD16 candidates. Walla Walla Community College, Performing Arts Auditorium.

6:00 pm: Vice Presidential debate with Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance. Available online at CBS, Paramount, PBS and elsewhere.