The thing about a college campus is that while it feels like its own world, its own society with a president and a newspaper and problems all on its own, it’s smack dab in the middle of a city with its own leaders, its own newspaper(s), and its own problems that directly impact you.
Currently, Seattle is in the thick of a city council election. It’s on November 5, and seven of the nine city council seats are up for a vote, which we do by mail in this state. If you are not registered to vote, go to votewa.gov and take care of that right now.
The city council is to Seattle what Congress is to the United States. The council makes the laws that impact life in the city—be it transportation decisions, action on climate change, zoning changes that could impact rent prices, and so on. It’s an important government body and, after the primary, which was in August, each of the seven seats up for grabs have a progressive grassroots candidate pitted against a more moderate big-business-funded candidate.
