STAR voting was mentioned in this recent article by the Portland Mercury:

"Portland currently uses a “first-past-the-post” voting system, in which voters mark their ballot for a single candidate. But proponents of ranked choice voting, in which voters rank candidates in order of preference, and STAR voting, in which voters score every candidate on a scale of zero to five, argue that their systems more accurately capture voter preferences and better serve them in contests with more than two viable candidates."

Read the whole article here.