Melissa Santos is formerly a Crosscut staff reporter who covered state politics and the Legislature. She came to Crosscut from The Seattle Times editorial board, where she wrote columns and opinion pi
Local Democratic groups have split over whether to support two candidates with ties to the former party chair, who was accused of mistreating staff.
Few politicians think August is the best month for turnout. But a few factors, including fundraising, may mean the election date’s here to stay.
Seattle's first-in-the-nation program for publicly financing campaigns has been OK'd by the state's highest court.
Candidates for statewide offices are actively campaigning as they wait for Gov. Jay Inslee to decide his political future. But they're not calling it that, exactly, because: politics.
The Washington governor and aspiring presidential nominee has a lot of work to do in Wednesday's debate to make his mark in the crowded 2020 race.
