Who Washington’s GOP is reaching out to for more votes: Today So Far

We won’t keep away from this anymore. It is October. It is time to begin speaking about elections.

With a couple of month to go, we cannot be capable of escape sensational marketing campaign adverts from our mailbox to our TVs, or the net bickering, or the last-minute “surprises” deliberate simply in time to swing a couple of votes. Past all that, the problems are actual and so are the candidates, which sounds odd since conspiracy theories are nonetheless driving loads of voters — significantly election fraud and something that sows doubt. Within the Northwest, you will hear candidates promote “election integrity” as an extension of this.

One other story that has come by way of KUOW’s newsroom is the concerted effort by Democrats and Republicans in Washington to achieve Latino votes. After each election, Democrats all the time appear so shocked that each single vote within the Latino demographic didn’t go their manner. Whereas it is true that, statistically, Latino votes usually favor Democrats, regionally and nationally, there are communities that lean proper. With the economic system not doing so effectively, and some different factors, Republicans want to open up extra votes of their favor.

“Religiously, economically, they match, I feel in my view, significantly better on the Republican aspect of the political spectrum,” mentioned Republican Congressmember Dan Newhouse who’s working for re-election in Washington’s Fourth District.

“This can be a large voting bloc that could be very a lot open to contemplating voting for Republican candidates,” state GOP Chair Caleb Heimlich mentioned.

This isn’t simply GOP marketing campaign rhetoric. There are political analysts in Washington who’ve observed a slight sway to the precise in latest elections. Republicans have observed too. That is why state Republicans have opened an workplace in Wenatchee, and have employed a full-time worker with the aim of reaching out to Latino communities in Yakima and the Tri-Cities. Learn extra right here.

Washington’s winemakers are adapting to the smoky summers we have had over the previous few years. Whereas smoke is nice for sunsets, it isn’t so nice for wine grapes which soak it up. That smoky taint stays with the grapes all through the winemaking course of and offers an ashy taste. Many winemakers have a mission to mitigate this taint. Some have blended the 2020 crush with different wines to get previous the smoky taste. However there’s one other effort to get expertise to assist out. Some new work out of Washington State College has uncovered the undesirable smoky compounds which can be inflicting the issue. The objective now could be to develop a method to take away them. Learn extra right here.

The homeownership hole between white and Black residents in Washington is worse than it was within the Nineteen Sixties. That is one discovering of a brand new examine from the state’s Division of Commerce, which was initially ordered up by the Legislature. Black, Indigenous and folks of coloration must buy greater than 140,000 homes to realize parity with white householders. The examine is supposed to tell future insurance policies to assist bridge the hole.

Michael Brown with the Seattle Basis’s Black Dwelling Initiative tells KUOW that its “deal with residence possession isn’t only a good factor – it’s meant to be transformative.” That is as a result of homeownership can feed into different advantages, like monetary and group stability. Brown promotes subsidies to assist low-income individuals purchase houses. He argues that the market won’t give you such housing by itself, so it must be intentional. Learn extra right here.

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The Seattle Kraken lately unveiled its first ever mascot, Buoy, a sea troll impressed by the Fremont Troll. (Courtesy of the Kraken)

DID YOU KNOW?

Seems, October is a really conscious month. It is Nationwide Apple Month and Nationwide Applejack Month (the drink, not the cereal or the horse). It is also Nationwide Cyber Safety Consciousness Month and Incapacity Employment Consciousness Month. Apparently, it is also Nationwide Sarcastic Month … which I’m sooo enthusiastic about.

I’m going to cowl a couple of October issues to bear in mind off, beginning with — squirrels! Yep. It is Squirrel Consciousness Month. You’ve got most likely heard by now that squirrels have been deliberately introduced into many metropolis parks as an attraction within the 1800s. Parks have been turning into all the fashion, so why not have a couple of cute and fluffy buddies to feed as effectively? It labored for some time, a bit of too effectively. There are tales of squirrels getting so fats from individuals feeding them that they fell out of timber and could not get again up.

When some squirrels do get away with a tasty nut, they typically cover them to eat later. Some squirrels, particularly the grey squirrel, is understood to faux to cover its meals. Regardless of their efforts, squirrels lose a couple of quarter of the meals they cover, to different squirrels or birds, and so on. It seems they understand this lack of stock so that they interact in “misleading caching.” Mainly, squirrels faux to bury meals — dig a gap, faux to drop one thing in it, then fill it again up. Then they do it time and again with the objective of fooling any thieves who might be watching.

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Loretta Lynn, nation music icon, has died at 90

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