Waiting, statue-like, for the next count

In the mayor's race, the slow process of counting mail-in ballots has left the candidates frozen.
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Penn State's Beaver Stadium with the recently removed statue of Joe Paterno

In the mayor's race, the slow process of counting mail-in ballots has left the candidates frozen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson asked, “How much of human life is lost in waiting?” Think of the mayoral candidates.

  

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Chuck Wolfe

Chuck Wolfe

Chuck Wolfe provides a unique perspective about cities as a London-based urbanist writer, photographer, land use consultant and former Seattle land use and environmental attorney.