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  • What's the matter with Kent? No local newspaper means low voter turnout

    Danny Westneat|Dec 6, 2023

    Perry Sobolik calls himself “an old newspaper junkie.” So he scours the press like a hawk for any scraps about his town, which happens to be the Seattle suburb of Kent. “We still get some attention down here, every once in a while,” he said. “Like when somebody gets killed.” When it comes to local politics, though, Kent, now a city of 139,000 people, is like “living in a desert.” “I’m not sure there was much awareness there was a local election being held,” Sobolik told me. You may have seen the news that Washington state just had the lowest v... Full story

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