Believe it or not, MSNBC is surprsingly non-partisan for national news outside of the business world, so theres a potential 2nd national source for you.
Yeah, its more complicated than that. Washington's population clusters in very small areas. The puget sound which is like 50% of the population is crammed in only about a couple thousand square miles if that. So as a result there are like city newspapers ever 10 miles and at least 5 county newspapers for each of the 4 counties. It's a big problem in all metropolises because cities usually have populations that dont have time for papers these day and they'll have major failures.
Nope. None besides my own personal beliefs on the major debates right now. And even that has a nice neutrality to it. I believe we can't force everyone to conform to the same rules. Ie. I dont believe in abortion, but I think we should keep it law because restricting that kind of activity could cause more problems.