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Spokane County is rather conservative for an urban county, voting Republican for president all but three times since 1948. Democratic strength is concentrated in Spokane itself and in Cheney, which is home to Eastern Washington University, while the suburban areas are heavily Republican. [45]
When the conservative National Opposition Union won power in 1990, Brown expressed worry that the new leaders would walk back the partially state-run command economy, replacing it with a more conservative, market-based economy. [9] Brown also worked as a professor in organizational leadership at Gonzaga University from 2001 until 2012.
(The Center Square) - Spokane’s elected officials approved the upcoming biennial budget on Monday, seemingly pulling the city out of a $25 million deficit, but the conservative minority has ...
Nov. 3—Spokane's elections are the hottest game in the state for wealthy donors, local and national real estate groups, unions and others hoping to influence voters this November. The candidates ...
The 2023 Spokane mayoral election was held on November 7, 2023, to elect the mayor of Spokane in the U.S. state of Washington.The election was officially nonpartisan. Incumbent Republican mayor Nadine Woodward, who ran for a second term, and former Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown advanced to the general election as the top two candidates in the top-two primary on August
More than 60% of Spokane County voters shot it down. Conservative voters in the county's reddest areas didn't like it; liberal voters in Spokane's bluest neighborhoods didn't like it either.
Washington ratified its constitution and held its first state elections in 1889, the year it was admitted to the union as a state. It established the positions of governor, lieutenant governor, Secretary of State, attorney general, state treasurer, state auditor, Commissioner of Public Lands, and Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Nov. 7—It was beginning to feel almost like a cycle: a conservative in one election, then a progressive in the next two years later. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, northeast ...