1. Excerpt: Con­tin­u­ing a long tra­di­tion of endors­ing Repub­li­cans in key state and fed­er­al races, the Blethen-con­trolled Seat­tle Times edi­to­r­i­al board has Belat­ed­ly pub­lished an endorse­ment of Jiny­oung Lee Englund, the Repub­li­can Par­ty’s can­di­date for the state Sen­ate in Wash­ing­ton’s 45th Leg­isla­tive District.