On election night last week, the results were too close to determine who would be the next Mayor of Tacoma. Progressive Marilyn Strickland began with a slight lead of under 150 votes. However, since then, she has managed to continually build on that lead and she is now poised to be the mayor of the state's third largest city.

In a recent study by Paul Ong at UCLA, 83% of Asian Americans in California considered themselves environmentalists. You could say that San Jose City Councilman Kansen Chu is one of them. Kansen has started the ball rolling on a ban of all grocery bags in the city. He first got the idea in Taiwan when a grocer charged him for a plastic bag.

Congratulations again to all our progressive Asian American winners yesterday.  There are a lot of news reports on each of the races. Here are some of the top reports on Margaret Chin who will be representing New York City Council District 1.

Chin Wins City Council Primary (Tribeca Tribune)

Just got an email from New York City Councilmember John Liu's office. With just four days to go until the citywide primaries on Sept. 15th, John has started to emerge as the leader in the race for Comptroller

In a Democratic Primary Election for New York City Comptroller held today, 09/11/09, John Liu finishes first with 34% of the vote, according to this latest exclusive WABC-TV poll conducted by SurveyUSA -- near, but not at, the 40% trigger that would avoid a September 30 runoff for the top two finishers.