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Lynnwood Times

U.S. local community news, no clear partisan lean (owner is a former Republican candidate)

Owned byIndependently owned by Mario Lotmore, an industrial engineer who ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for Washington State Senate (District 21) in 2018
FundingPrint and online advertising, reader donations and fundraising from community activities, according to the outlet's own description
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

The Lynnwood Times was conceived after owner Mario Lotmore's 2018 campaign for the District 21 state senate seat, which he lost to Democratic incumbent Marko Liias. It launched in 2019 as a biweekly print paper with a companion website. Lotmore, originally from The Bahamas, previously worked as an industrial engineer in aerospace, manufacturing and banking. The outlet says it is independently owned and supported by advertising, reader donations and community fundraising. It has won a number of Washington Newspaper Publishers Association awards, including seven more in 2025, bringing its total to 32. Its content centers on city council, public safety, schools and local business. Recent coverage of the Trump administration is mostly local in focus, for example its February 2026 report on Lynnwood's proposed protections for immigrants amid ICE enforcement. I found no strong evidence of consistent partisan advocacy in either direction, though this assessment rests on limited sampling of its recent articles.

Sources

  1. Your Lynnwood Times
  2. Real News...Real Impact!
  3. Mario Lionel Lotmore - Ballotpedia
  4. Lynnwood Times wins seven new awards at WNPA annual Journalism Conference
  5. Amid Trump crackdown, Lynnwood proposes protections for immigrants from ICE

Profile compiled 2026-10-23; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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