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Candidates for Tacoma’s next mayor offer diverse experiences for voters to weigh

Candidates running to be Tacoma's next mayor have a wide array of experiences that residents will have to weigh when they decide who will be mayor later this fall. But in Tacoma, the position of mayor has a lot less power than in other communities because of the city's Council-Manager style government, which makes the city manager the chief executive officer of the city. The top two candidates who receive the most votes in the Aug. 5 Tacoma primary will face off in the November general election.

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Mitch Borden is a general assignment reporter at KNKX. He’s worked at radio stations across the U.S. in places like rural Alaska and West Texas. Borden loves to cover all types of interesting stories. News tips can be sent to mborden@knkx.org.