state names
SPELL THEM OUT. There are only very, very rare instances where we don’t spell them out. So let’s not use the two-letter postal abbreviations. When they’re used as part of a city-state combo, you put a comma after the city name and after the state name: John Smith lives in the Walla Walla, Washington, area.
Believe me, if you think spelling them out is a pain and you want a shorter way, I can give you one — but you don’t want it because it consists of remembering the AP abbreviations, and we don’t wanna go there.
