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Keaira Johnson, left, and Cedella Dean, of Northside Step Team, dance in front of Seattle City Hall at a protest led by youth activists demanding racial, climate, economic, worker, and social justice Monday, July 20, 2020. The demonstration follows other protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Editorial: State CEOs backing reforms against racial inequity

Business leaders, including a former governor, put promises and cash down to foster racial equity.

Democrat Jack Arends (left), a member of Washington’s Electoral College, is comforted by fellow elector Julian Wheeler after Arends became emotional while talking about his failing health and the importance of being able to cast his vote at the state Capitol in Olympia, Monday. (Ted S. Warren / Associated Press)

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Editorial: Enough with rabble-rousing allegations of a coup

An Everett man’s simple vote in the Electoral College stands in contrast to the actions of others.

Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)

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Editorial: Adopt covid relief with pledge for more to come

It won’t meet every need, but Congress must pass funding to help the unemployed and small businesses.

FILE - In this July 31, 2015 file photo, an orca leaps out of the water near a whale watching boat in the Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands, Wash. Habitat protections for an endangered population of orcas would be greatly expanded under a proposal to be advanced by NOAA Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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Editorial: Limits for whale watch boats ignore larger problem

Restricting orca excursions won’t help whales unable to find enough salmon in the Salish Sea.

CT CEO Emmett Heath (left) and U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Washington, tour the Seaway Transit Center across from the main employee parking lot at the Boeing Co.'s Everett plant. The facility is set to open next year as part of the new Swift Green Line to Canyon Park in Bothell. (Noah Haglund / The Herald)

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Editorial: Transit agency’s chief leaves it ready for future

Community Transit’s Emmett Heath retires after 16 years of service to riders, county residents.

Workers assemble signs for the top of Climate Pledge Arena (shown in the background), the future home of the Seattle Kraken NHL hockey team and the Seattle Storm WNBA team, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, in Seattle. The signs are scheduled to be installed on the roof of the facility by a helicopter on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Editorial: Getting climate change and the economy right

The crises present the opportunity to address both by building a green economy in the state.

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 31, 2020, file photo, Washington Army and Air National Guard soldiers confer in an operations room at Camp Murray, Wash. The state of Washington is calling in the National Guard to help process unemployment benefit claims as officials grapple with a backlog caused in part by a fraud ring that stole more than half a billion dollars in aid, officials said Thursday, June 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren,File)

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Editorial: Take steps to make most of next jobless aid bill

State and federal authorities need to improve delivery of unemployment benefits for covid relief.

Macro photo of tooth wheel mechanism with imprinted RECEIVE, GIVE concept words

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Editorial: We can meet increased need caused by covid

As GivingTuesday nears, consider how you can help nonprofits with the work they do in your community.

A latte is made at Narrative Coffee on Oct. 4, 2018 in Everett, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Editorial: Covid only upped need for Small Business Saturday

Locally owned businesses need your support to survive the pandemic. Here’s how to do so safely.

Tonya Drake is chancellor of WGU Washington. (Courtesy of WGU)

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Editorial: Education can build on Native Americans’ heritage

There are obstacles to higher education, but also new opportunities to increase students’ access.

Customers place their orders at Sisters on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 in Everett, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Editorial: Our best hope is to cope with covid limits

Restrictions on eateries and shops are painful but can suppress the virus until a vaccine is ready.

Fifth grader Vivian Fisher get help setting up a ChromeBook from Jody Urban at Frank Wagoner Elementary on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 in Monroe, Wa. Students of Frank Wagoner Elementary School returned on Wednesday to collect computers and other supplies to finish up the rest of the school year at home. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

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Editorial: Monroe schools take safe path on students’ return

Stepping back from a threat to fire teachers, the district paused plans to return students to schools.

Volunteers await the next grouping a cars Friday morning at the Faith Food Bank at Faith Lutheran Church in Everett on October 9, 2020. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

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Editorial: Food banks need our help especially now

The pandemic’s surge has deepened the demand and complicated efforts to serve those in need.

Customer Kyung Kim, right, and her daughter Alexa Oh, 9, are handed their purchased baked goods through an open door by cashier Donna Te as they maintain social distance and wear masks Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in Seattle. Washington state and county health officials have warned of a spike in coronavirus cases across the state, and pleaded with the public to take the pandemic more seriously heading into the winter holidays. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Editorial: As holidays approach let’s be thankful but wary

News of a vaccine is tempered by a sobering increase in infection rates. We can’t let up yet.

Voters stand in line to get their ballots at the Robert J. Drewel Administration Building on the Snohomsish County Campus on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 in Everett, Washington. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

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Editorial: Baseless vote fraud allegations insult democracy

Unsubstatiated charges of voter fraud risk damage to public confidence in our election systems.

The "Too Much Talent," band performs in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as arguments are heard about the Affordable Care Act, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Editorial: Biden, Congess can restore health of the ACA

Statements by two justices offer hope the ACA’s constitutionality will be upheld. But work remains.

Travonna Thompson-Wiley, with Black Action Coalition, speaks at the Count Every Vote - Protect Every Person rally and march in Occidental Park in Seattle on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. A coalition of groups organized the event, which drew hundreds of people. The coalition demanded that every vote is counted and orderly transition of power, as well as the elimination the electoral college, defunding the police, eradicating ICE/CBP and investing in Black communities. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times via AP)

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Editorial: Electoral College interferes in votes of Americans

At best it’s a bothersome redundancy; at worst a paternalistic denial of American voting rights.

Andrew Hougardy, a worker at the King County election headquarters in Renton, Wash., views an "alternative format" ballot held up by a co-worker during ballot processing and counting, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Washington is a vote by mail state, and thousands of ballots have already been mailed back, dropped off in boxes, or cast in person. Although counting has begun, no results will be known to workers or released until the night of election day. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Editorial: Calling on the ’brethern of the same principle’

We can seem far from Jefferson’s ideal of shared purpose, but it’s there if we listen to each…

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 1964, file photo, staffers work on election night at the Washington, D.C. bureau of The Associated Press. As it has for more than 170 years, The Associated Press will count the vote and report the results of presidential, congressional and state elections quickly, accurately and without fear or favor on Nov. 3 and beyond. (AP Photo/File)

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Editorial: They also serve, who only vote and wait

Regardless of how Americans vote, every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

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Editorial: Approve 8212 to make most of long-term care fund

Approval would allow the fund — supporting care services — to be carefully invested by a state board.